Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi's office said on Thursday a unit of the security forces committed "abuses" against civilians during the offensive to oust Daesh (ISIS) insurgents from the city of Mosul. His government began an investigation in May into a report by German newsmagazine Der...

An Australian senator provoked an angry backlash from lawmakers by wearing a burqa in Parliament on Thursday as part of her campaign for a national ban on Islamic face covers. Pauline Hanson, leader of the anti-Muslim, anti-immigration One Nation minor party, sat wearing the black...

The United Nations hopes for "serious negotiation" between the government and a still-to-be-formed unified Syrian opposition in October or November this year, the U.N. Special Envoy Staffan de Mistura said on Thursday. "Regarding the [Syrian] government, we are counting very much on Russia,...

Copenhagen police say they are looking for a body in the case of a Swedish journalist missing since a trip on a home-built submarine. Chief investigator Jens Moeller Jensen says "it is our clear presumption that we are looking for a dead person." Moeller Jensen said in a YouTube clip...