ERBIL, Iraq: Shia militiamen have advanced to within three kilometers of the Islamic State-held majority-Turkmen city of Tal Afar, located some 60 kilometers...
ERBIL, Iraq: Shia militiamen have advanced to within three kilometers of the Islamic State-held majority-Turkmen city of Tal Afar, located some 60 kilometers...
SEOUL: South Korea is witnessing a fourth consecutive weekend of mass protests against President Park Geun-hye, with organizers estimating that those gathering in...
Istanbul: Police on Saturday detained two Swedish TV journalists in the sensitive Kurdish-majority province of Diyarkabir in southeastern Turkey after they filmed near...
Vatican City: Pope Francis will create 17 new cardinals from across the globe Saturday in a time-honoured ceremony, elevating them to an elite...
ALEPPO, Syria: All hospitals in the under-siege Aleppo city in northeastern Syria were forced to shut down due to relentless airstrikes by regime...
NEAR BASHIQA, Iraq: The first thing Iraqi teenager Afrah did when she escaped Islamic State captivity near Mosul was to remove her face...
MANILA: An unidentified gunman shoots dead a Filipino man. A reporter looks anxious as he arrives at the scene and watches a policeman...
Washington: An air ambulance operated by American Medflight has crashed in a parking lot in the city of Elko in Nevada, killing a...
CAIRO: Egypt's President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi has praised U.S. President-elect Donald J. Trump, saying that his inflammatory statements from the campaign trail do not...
BAMIYAN, Afghanistan: Marzia and her husband Qadeer thought themselves lucky when they moved into a 1,700-year-old Buddhist cave hand-carved into the side of...
SANAA: The Saudi-led coalition that has been fighting Houthi rebels in Yemen has declared a two-day ceasefire in the war-torn country. "It has...
CAIRO: Dozens militants were reportedly killed in clashes with Egyptian army forces in the restive Sinai Peninsula on Friday, according to a local...
NEW YORK: Intelligence experts estimate that the Islamic State extremist group has between 60 and 80 operatives planted in Europe to carry out...
MOSUL, Iraq: A senior military commander says Iraqi troops are facing stiff resistance from Islamic State militants as they push deeper into eastern...
WASHINGTON: Secretary of State John Kerry and his Russian counterpart, Sergey Lavrov, have spoken twice in as many days, the State Department said...
Guwahati, India: Heavily armed militants ambushed an army convoy on Saturday, killing three soldiers and injuring four others in India's restive northeastern state...
San Francisco: Hyperloop One on Friday said it settled a lawsuit filed by a co-founder who accused former colleagues of nepotism, threats and...
New York: What if speculation proves correct and Donald Trump decides against settling in Washington and maintains his principal residence in New York?...
