The army on Wednesday recaptured the Al-Dabour Island region in Iraq’s western Anbar province from the Daesh terrorist group, Iraqi Army General Qassim al-Muhammadi told Anadolu Agency. "The Iraqi army, backed by airstrikes carried out by the international coalition and the Hashd...

Chinese authorities said Wednesday that 27 people are missing in eastern Zhejiang province after a landslide hit a village during torrential rains related to Typhoon Megi. State news agency Xinhua cited the provincial government as saying that “several” houses and buildings were...

Congress on Wednesday overwhelmingly rejected President Barack Obama’s veto of legislation that allows the victims of terror attacks to sue foreign governments, marking Obama's first congressional override. The measure received support well beyond a two-thirds super majority to pass...

Russian or Syrian warplanes knocked two hospitals out of service in the besieged rebel sector of Aleppo on Wednesday and ground forces intensified an assault in a battle which the United Nations said had made the city worse than a slaughterhouse. Two patients died in one of the hospitals and...