Several thousand women marched on the streets of Caracas, Venezuela Saturday to protest against the suspension of a referendum effort that could have led to the ouster of President Nicolas…
continue readingA Saudi-led coalition resumed airstrikes Sunday near Yemen’s capital, Sana’a. The strikes came just hours after a 72-hour cease-fire expired. U.N. special envoy Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed said he…
continue readingIraqi and Kurdish forces were in a new offensive Sunday on a town near Mosul, as U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter visited the region to get an assessment of the…
continue readingAfghanistan’s cultivation of opium poppy has risen 10 percent in 2016, the United Nations has said. …
continue readingReports from northern Iraq say Iraqi government forces have entered the last settlement on the northern approach into the extremist-controlled city of Mosul. …
continue readingMajor League Baseball’s Chicago Cubs won their first National League pennant since 1945 and are a step closer to ending a 108-year World Series drought after beating the Los Angeles…
continue readingLithuania’s opposition is hoping to dislodge the leftist government from power as voters go to the polls in the second round of parliamentary elections. …
continue readingTurkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim says Turkey is ready to “take measures” in northern Iraq because Ankara is not satisfied with promises from the United States and Baghdad about the…
continue readingTurkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim says Turkey is ready to “take measures” in northern Iraq because Ankara is not satisfied with promises from the United States and Baghdad about the…
continue readingIraq’s parliament has voted to ban the sale, import, and production of alcohol – a move that is expected to please influential Islamic parties but anger some non-Muslim minority groups.…
continue readingThe mayor of Tashkent, the capital of Uzbekistan, has pledged to publicize the names of those who apply for divorces in an attempt to keep married couples together. Appalled at…
continue readingIslamic State leaders accept they will lose control of the city of Mosul but are planning to defend their last major urban stronghold in Iraq tenaciously, U.S. and Kurdish officials…
continue readingFor weeks, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has been telling supporters that voter fraud could undermine the November 8 election and cause him to lose to Democrat Hillary Clinton. “They…
continue readingA United Nations inquiry has found Syrian government forces responsible for a third toxic gas attack last year, an attack condemned harshly by the White House. …
continue readingFighting in Yemen, with government forces and their Saudi-led allies battling Houthi rebels backed by Iran, raged from Friday into Saturday on the Saudi-Yemen border, despite a 72-hour cease-fire that…
continue readingSyrian activists report that fierce fighting in Aleppo has brought an end to a three-day cease-fire in the city that had been declared by Syria’s government and its main ally,…
continue readingGrab some popcorn — AT&T wants to take you to the movies. The company is buying Time Warner, owner of the Warner Bros. movie studio as well as HBO and…
continue readingMillions of Americans have already cast their votes for the next U.S. president, more than two weeks before Election Day on November 8. New data from the Pew Research Center…
continue readingLegislation making its way through Russia’s parliament aims to prevent parents from giving kids unusual names. …
continue readingThe U.S. defense secretary gave an upbeat assessment of the ongoing operation to retake the Iraqi city of Mosul from Islamic State militants, as he traveled to Baghdad for talks…
continue readingIraqi state TV said security forces repelled a major attack by the Islamic State militants on the oil producing city of Kirkuk but at least 80 people, mainly security forces,…
continue readingA march in support of unification with Moldova turned violent in the Romanian capital after several people broke through riot police lines trying to reach a symbolic downtown site. …
continue readingIraqi security forces have overcome a major attack by the extremist group Islamic State (IS) in Kirkuk and regained full control of the northern Iraqi oil city, Iraqi state TV…
continue reading“Of course we are afraid there are bombs planted in our homes,” said Badirkhan Moussa, who fled his home on foot two years ago when Islamic State militants stormed his…
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