Canada has restricted six chemicals used to make the opioid fentanyl, which has been blamed in thousands of overdose deaths across the country. "This will make it harder to access the chemicals used to make illicit fentanyl, and provide law enforcement with a stronger ability to take action...

Gunfire could be heard over Tripoli on Thursday as armed groups mobilized heavy weapons and took up positions in several parts of the Libyan capital. Militias that hold effective power across the city clash frequently, but the shooting was heavier than usual and tanks and armed convoys could...

A total of 1,600 Iraqi Kurdish peshmerga fighters have been killed since the start on October 17 of a huge offensive to retake the extremist bastion of Mosul, a spokesman said Thursday. Close to 10,000 peshmerga were also wounded in the six weeks of fierce fighting to oust ISIS from Iraq's...

The UN envoy to Yemen and President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi met Thursday in the southern city of Aden to discuss a new bid to end the country's conflict, a government official said. Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed, who flew in from Riyadh, held several hours of talks with Hadi at the hilltop...