Leaders of the European Union agreed late Wednesday to grant an extension to the U.K. on Brexit up to the end of October with a review in June. European Council President Donald Tusk said on Twitter that the EU’s 27 member states and the UK reached the agreement at an emergency Brexit...

Sudan's Omar al-Bashir has stepped down as president, Sudanese military sources claimed in an apparent military takeover Thursday. Al-Bashir has been placed under house arrest as his bodyguards have been detained, military sources said.  Military sources said Sudanese military...

Iraq has offered to put on trial hundreds of accused foreign jihadists in Baghdad in exchange for millions of dollars, potentially solving a legal conundrum for Western governments but sparking rights concerns. Western countries have been rocked by fierce public debate over whether to...

With the blast finally walls gone, some 16 years after the U.S.-led invasion, life in the Iraqi capital Baghdad is starting to look like any normal bustling city. Families and friends hang out in cafes and shopping malls, people hold birthday parties in public and traders ply their wares...