Devastated buildings, piles of rubble and putrid corpses of extremists: apocalyptic scenes unfold in the Old City of Mosul where Iraqi forces are battling the last ISIS group fighters. Lieutenant Colonel Mohammed al-Tamim walks past the body of an extremist half buried under the ruins of a...

An Irish naval ship rescued 712 people including pregnant women and infants off the coast of the Libyan capital of Tripoli as part of an international migrant rescue effort, Ireland's Defense Forces said on Monday. The LE Eithne ship led the rescue of multiple vessels in distress 40...

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani voiced support on Sunday for Qatar in its confrontation with Iran's rival Saudi Arabia and its allies, saying a "siege of Qatar is unacceptable", the state news agency IRNA reported. Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Egypt and Bahrain cut ties with...

President Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday dismissed calls for Turkey to close a military base in Qatar and said a wider list of demands issued by four Arab states was an unlawful intervention against the Gulf emirate's sovereignty. In his strongest statement of support for Qatar in the nearly...