ISIS militants are preventing civilians from leaving Ramadi ahead of an attack planned by the Iraqi army to retake the western city that the militants captured in May, an Iraqi Defense Ministry spokesman said Monday. "There are families that managed to escape the gangs of Daesh," the...

One of the would-be chairmen of Libya's $67 billion sovereign wealth fund said Monday that it would be wrong to unfreeze the fund's assets following last week's agreement to form a national unity government. AbdulMagid Breish, one of two rival chairmen of the Libyan Investment Authority (LIA),...

A suicide bomber on a motorbike attacked a joint U.S.-Afghan patrol near Bagram air base in Afghanistan Monday, killing five soldiers and wounding six, Bagram District Governor Abdul Shukur Qudusi said. In a tweet, Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid claimed responsibility and said 19 soldiers...

 Spain faces a struggle to form a stable government Monday following historic elections that saw the incumbent conservatives score a win but no majority, tailed by the long-established Socialists and upstart, far-left Podemos. While it took the largest share of the vote, the PP lost its...