Iraqi military and hospital officials say mortar rounds fired by ISIS militants have killed 16 civilians in neighborhoods already retaken by troops. They said the bodies of the 16, killed overnight and early Saturday, have been brought to military hospitals in eastern Mosul. The...

(The Guardian)- Britain’s home secretary is being urged by MPs to allow refugees from the Yazidi community, a minority Iraqi group persecuted by Islamic State, to enter the UK under the same rules that allow entrance to vulnerable Syrian refugees. In a letter to Amber Rudd (pdf), a...

(The Daily Star )- Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev Saturday hailed Fidel Castro, the Cuban socialist icon who has aged 90, for "strengthening" his island nation. "Fidel stood up and strengthened his country during the harshest American blockade, when there was colossal pressure on him...

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu visited Iran on Saturday and met President Hassan Rouhani, Iranian state media reported, in rare previously announced talks between the regional rivals. Cavusoglu was also due to meet his Iranian counterpart Mohammad Javad Zarif during the visit, the...