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Germany on Tuesday detained a German-Afghan man on suspicion he was spying for Iran while working for the German army as a linguistic and cultural adviser. The 50-year-old identified as Abdul Hamid S. was arrested in western Germany, federal prosecutors said

An upscale hotel complex in Kenya’s capital came under attack by terrorists on Tuesday, with a blast and heavy gunfire, killing at least one and injuring four. The five patients were brought to M. P. Shah Hospital and one of them

China will launch a probe to collect samples from the moon around the end of this year, a space official said on Monday, weeks after Beijing hailed the successful touch down on the far side of the moon. The Chang’e-4 lunar

The newly-appointed United Nations special envoy to Syria Geir Pedersen is scheduled to arrive in Damascus for a three-day visit on Tuesday, according to a U.N. source and Syrian media. The visit will be the Norwegian diplomat’s first to the war-torn

Jordanian King Abdullah II met Iraqi President Barham Saleh in Baghdad on Monday, according to state television, in the monarch’s first trip to Iraq in more than a decade. The visit is the latest in a string of top-level diplomatic encounters