Turkey's foreign minister has reiterated his country's demand that the Iraqi Kurds cancel a scheduled referendum for independence. Mevlut Cavusoglu told reporters in Baghdad that Turkey's expectation from Irbil, the capital of the autonomous northern Iraqi Kurdish region, is "very plain and...

The Philippines' largest Muslim rebel group said Wednesday it had lost 10 fighters in battles to stop a "growing force" of radical militants who support Daesh (ISIS). The Moro Islamic Liberation Front is seeking to prevent the militants from gaining a foothold in an area of Mindanao island...

 Police on Wednesday widened their probe into a terror cell that unleashed carnage in Spain last week, after a suspect admitted the extremists were targeting monuments in Barcelona in an even bigger attack. Officers carried out new raids overnight to root out a possible support network...

 Several people including civilians were killed in an air raid Wednesday on the Yemeni capital, witnesses and local media said. A television channel run by the country's Huthi rebels, who control Sanaa, reported more than 30 civilians killed in a raid by the Saudi-led military coalition...