President Barack Obama's administration is planning to train Sunni tribes' fighters as part of its move to send up to 450 additional U.S. forces to Iraq, the White House said Wednesday.
The capital of Indonesia's Aceh province has imposed a partial curfew for women that it says will reduce sexual violence but which critics say is discriminatory.
8 thousand ISIS members have so far been killed in Iraq and Syria in the airstrike campaign of the coalition forces since the beginning of the campaign in August 2014, according to the body count ...
An explosion at a gas station in Ghana's capital killed at least 78 people late on June 3, many of whom had sought shelter there from torrential rain, a fire brigade spokesman said.
Eleven prisoners have been executed in Iran’s Urmiye and Tabriz prisons for drug-related charges, and Iran’s media outlets have avoided publishing reports about the executions.
More than 10,000 ISIS gang fighters have been killed since an international coalition began a campaign against the group in Iraq and Syria, the US says.
Chinese rescuers have worked through the night in an increasingly desperate race to find survivors from a capsized cruise ship, with more than 400 people still missing after the boat sank in a storm ...
Dizzying temperatures have caused water shortages in thousands of Indian villages and killed hundreds more people over the past day, driving the death toll from a weeks-long heat wave to at least ...
Police attacked the group that had resisted in Yerevan’s Freedom Square protesting against an electricity price rise.
Suicide bombers have attacked the Afghan parliament in Kabul, forcing politicians to evacuate.
Gunmen have shot dead at least 10 people in a beer distribution centre near the Mexican city of Monterrey and then stole from the bodies.
It has emerged that of the nine people slain in a racist attack on a church in the U.S. city of Charleston, South Carolina, five were women.
President Barack Obama's administration is planning to train Sunni tribes' fighters as part of its move to send up to 450 additional U.S. forces to Iraq, the White House said Wednesday.
The capital of Indonesia's Aceh province has imposed a partial curfew for women that it says will reduce sexual violence but which critics say is discriminatory.
8 thousand ISIS members have so far been killed in Iraq and Syria in the airstrike campaign of the coalition forces since the beginning of the campaign in August 2014, according to the body count ...
A total of 396 people confirmed dead in ship tragedy, as more than 100 still remain unaccounted for, state media says.
Negotiators from both sides meeting in Cuban capital reach agreement despite recent escalation of violence.
Some 175 people have died in a fire at a petrol station in Ghana's capital, Accra, officials say.
An appeals court in Egypt has ordered former President Hosni Mubarak to stand trial again over the killing of protesters in 2011.
An explosion at a gas station in Ghana's capital killed at least 78 people late on June 3, many of whom had sought shelter there from torrential rain, a fire brigade spokesman said.
Relatives of some of the nearly 400 people missing after a cruise ship capsized on China's Yangtze River have staged a protest near the sinking site.
Eleven prisoners have been executed in Iran’s Urmiye and Tabriz prisons for drug-related charges, and Iran’s media outlets have avoided publishing reports about the executions.
More than 10,000 ISIS gang fighters have been killed since an international coalition began a campaign against the group in Iraq and Syria, the US says.
Chinese rescuers have worked through the night in an increasingly desperate race to find survivors from a capsized cruise ship, with more than 400 people still missing after the boat sank in a storm ...
Five people are dead and hundreds are missing after a ship carrying more than 450 people capsized on the Yangtze River in China's Hubei province.
Iraqi warplanes and artillery have bombarded Falluja, Iraq, and the surrounding villages for three days.
Dizzying temperatures have caused water shortages in thousands of Indian villages and killed hundreds more people over the past day, driving the death toll from a weeks-long heat wave to at least ...
Residents of the Japanese island of Kuchinoerabu have been urged to evacuate to get out of the path of an erupting volcano.