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SAN FRANCISCO, May 17, (THEWILL) – Public officials who are Catholic should not be obliged to celebrate gay marriages or civil unions, Pope Francis said on Tuesday. The pope’s declaration is the first public comment on the issue since same-sex...

The US and other world powers have said they are ready to arm Libya's UN-backed unity government to help it fight the self-styled Islamic State (IS) group. Speaking in Vienna, US Secretary of State John Kerry said world powers would...

Turkish and U.S.-led coalition forces struck Islamic State targets north of the Syrian city of Aleppo on Sunday, killing 27 fighters, state-run Anadolu Agency and other media reported. Turkish artillery and rocket launchers fired into Syria while warplanes from the...

Donald Trump said he was unlikely to have a good relationship with David Cameron because the British prime minister cast the U.S. presidential candidate as "divisive, stupid and wrong" for proposing a temporary ban on Muslims entering the United...

Thousands of demonstrators from Afghanistan's Hazara minority marched in protest through Kabul on Monday, accusing President Ashraf Ghani's government of cutting them out of a multi-million dollar power transmission line project. Protesters demanded that the planned route for the 500...

The presumptive Republican candidate in the US presidential election, Donald Trump, has called on Muslims to work with the police and "turn people in". In an interview with the UK's ITV, Mr Trump said he was not anti-Muslim, but "anti-terror". He...

Eight Turkish soldiers and 22 Kurdish militants have been killed in clashes over the last two days, authorities said on Friday, as violence widened in the largely Kurdish southeast following two bombings. After the collapse of a ceasefire between the...

Shooting and bomb attacks claimed by Islamic State killed at least 16 people in northern Iraq on Friday, days after Islamic State's deadliest blasts so far this year in the capital stirred public criticism of government security measures. Three gunmen...

Turkey has killed 3,000 Islamic State fighters in Syria and Iraq, President Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday, adding that no other country is fighting Islamic State as Ankara is. NATO member Turkey was initially a reluctant partner in the U.S.-led...

Amnesty International says at least 149 detainees have died "in horrendous conditions" at a military detention centre in north-east Nigeria this year. In a report, Amnesty says 11 of those who died at the Giwa barracks were young children, including...