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Kurdish forces open new front on ISIS capital Mosul

Kurdish Peshmerga forces Monday said they had secured a river crossing point enabling them to open a new front against ISIS and further tighten their grip on the militants' capital Mosul. Backed by airstrikes from the U.S.-led coalition, Kurdish fighters reached Kanhash, the western side of...

Cholera outbreak kills 16 in Central African Republic

At least 16 people have died amid a cholera outbreak in parts of the troubled Central African Republic (CAR), local authorities and international humanitarian groups said Friday. The United Nations’ Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian affairs (OCHA) said in a statement that the...