Islamic State jihadists are forcing children and disabled people into explosives-laden trucks and making them drive at Iraqi security forces in Mosul, a general from the US-led coalition has said....
The Syrian town of Al-Bab was for three years a key jihadist stronghold in northern Syria, whose capture Ankara hopes will give Turkey greater influence over the postwar shape of the country. The...
The United Arab Emirates announced Thursday it signed contracts worth a total of more than $5 billion to purchase weaponry during its international arms fair in Abu Dhabi this week. The four-day...
There was still morning mist in the air when Iraq's Rapid Response units began their push to take Mosul airport from the Islamic State group on Thursday. On a hilltop outside the village of...
Hollywood star George Clooney said Thursday that he will be stopping his visits to the world's troublespots now that his wife is pregnant with twins. The actor -- who campaigns against war and famine...
Iraqi forces backed by jets, drones and gunships attacked Mosul airport Thursday, a key step in a renewed offensive against jihadists defending their stronghold on the city's west bank. Forces...
A Berlin court on Wednesday began hearing a case against a former Iraqi soldier charged with war crimes after he allegedly posed for photographs with the severed heads of two IS jihadists. The...
US forces have been shot at and returned fire in the battle for the Iraqi city of Mosul, a coalition official acknowledged Wednesday, as American troops edge closer to the front lines. The United...
Simba the lion and Lula the bear are the Mosul zoo's only survivors -- the other animals were killed by shelling, starved to death or ate each other during the fighting. Covered in dirt and...
A Berlin court on Wednesday began hearing a case against a former Iraqi soldier charged with war crimes after he allegedly posed for photographs with the severed heads of two IS jihadists. The...
Iraqi forces readied on Wednesday for an assault on Mosul airport after blitzing jihadist positions in a renewed offensive to retake the Islamic State group's emblematic stronghold. Elite forces...
Bahrain police clashed with demonstrators following the death of a young man who attempted to escape arrest, witnesses said Wednesday, days after 20 people were detained across Shiite villages. It...
Thai football authorities said on Tuesday they would cancel the tickets of around 800 'ultras' for three World Cup qualifiers after flares were set off at a December international. The Football...
Riots broke out in a predominantly immigrant neighborhood of Stockholm Monday night, as residents clashed with police officers and set vehicles on fire, Swedish police say. Officers were forced to...
Canada will resettle 1,200 Yezidi refugees who faced persecution by the Islamic State group, the immigration minister said Tuesday. Some 400 have already been airlifted to this country. "Our...
An alliance of Arab and Kurdish fighters seized more than a dozen villages in eastern Syria on Tuesday in their drive to encircle the Islamic State group bastion of Raqa. The US-backed Syrian...
Malnutrition, child deaths and drug shortages -- healthcare in west Mosul is getting worse by the day as Iraqi forces press an offensive to wrest it from the Islamic State group. "Our neighbours' son...
Speaker of the Parliament has called for an amendment of the constitution to completely ban homosexuality in Ghana. It is a fact known by all that Ghana’s “Akwaaba” is for all but homosexuals...
Speaker of the Parliament has called for an amendment of Ghana’s constitution to completely ban homosexuality. It is a fact known by all that Ghana’s “Akwaaba” is for all but homosexuals and...
CIA-coordinated military aid for rebels in northwest Syria has been frozen since they came under major Islamist attack last month, rebel sources said, raising doubts about foreign support key to...
