Somalia is in desperate need for donated blood to treat survivors of a truck bombing in the capital Mogadishu Saturday that killed more than 300 people and injured at least 400 others, a minister said. The bombing was one of the worst such attacks in Somalia. Officials said it bore the...

Turkey's state-run agency says 11 human rights activists - including two local heads of Amnesty International - who were charged with links to terror groups will go on trial on Oct. 25. Anadolu Agency said a court on Tuesday approved the charges of "membership in a terror organization"...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Oil prices clung to this month’s high on Tuesday after Iraqi forces seized the oil-rich city of Kirkuk from largely autonomous Kurdish fighters while Asian shares held firm on optimism about upcoming earnings. Short-term U.S. bond yields and interest rates jumped after...

Daesh (ISIS) claimed responsibility Monday for two rockets fired from Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula into southern Israel. The strikes hit the Eshkol region close to the border late Sunday without causing injury or significant damage, the army said. The militant group claimed...

Germany has suspended the training of Kurdish Peshmerga forces in northern Iraq amid concerns about growing tensions in Kirkuk, officials confirmed Monday. “The military training activities have been temporarily suspended," a German Defense Ministry spokeswoman told Anadolu Agency,...

African countries need to redouble their efforts in the fight against terrorism that continues to grow in certain parts of the continent, the Peace and Security Council (PSC) of the African Union said Monday. Ambassador Catherin Mwangi, representative of the PSC, told lawmakers meeting...

10 Kurdish fighters killed in clashes with Iraqi forces near Kirkuk: official

Two protesters and a policeman were killed Monday in the eastern city of Marib as a clash broke out at a rally to demand jobs for Yemeni tribes, a security source said. Dozens of residents of Marib had gathered outside the local government offices to demand better jobs for and...

The European Union mposed fresh sanctions on North Korea on Monday as part of international efforts to punish the pariah regime for its nuclear and ballistic weapons programs. Foreign ministers meeting in Luxembourg signed off a new package of measures including a ban on investments in...

Turkey is ready to cooperate fully with the central Iraqi government to end the presence of the outlawed Kurdish militant group PKK in Iraq, the foreign ministry said Monday. In a statement, the ministry also said Ankara would stand by Baghdad to provide peace and stability in the...

Two Turkish soldiers were killed on Monday in the southeastern province of Hakkari after an improvised explosive device detonated, Turkish broadcaster CNN Turk said. The bomb was set off as a Turkish army truck drove past it near the Iraqi border.

Daesh (ISIS) once drew recruits from near and far with promises of paradise but now bodies of militants lie in mass graves or at the mercy of wild dogs as its “caliphate” collapses. Flies buzz around human remains poking through the dusty earth in the Iraqi town of Dhuluiyah, 90 kilometers...

An overcrowded boat carrying Rohingya Muslims fleeing Myanmar capsized Monday in the Bay of Bengal near a Bangladeshi fishing village, killing 12 people, including six children, police said. Survivors of the capsizing told local officials that up to 65 people were on board and almost...

Malaysia has rolled out the red carpet for Qatar's Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani, who is on his first trip abroad since a diplomatic crisis erupted in June between his nation and four Arab countries. Sheikh Tamim, who arrived in Kuala Lumpur late Sunday, was given a 21-gun salute...

Iraqi forces said Monday they had taken control of roads and infrastructure from Kurdish fighters near the disputed city of Kirkuk as tensions soar following a controversial independence referendum. Iraq's Joint Operations Command, which groups all pro-government forces, said it was...

Iraqi forces took control of “vast areas” in the oil-rich region of Kirkuk without opposition from Kurdish Peshmerga, state TV said on Monday. The announcement came after reports that Iraqi forces began moving at around midnight toward an important airbase and oilfields located west of...

At least 24 militants and six soldiers were killed Sunday in attacks on military outposts in North Sinai, the Egyptian military said in a statement. The statement did not give details, but security and medical sources said about 20 members of the security forces had also been injured...

Britain, Turkey and the African Union on Sunday strongly condemned the weekend suicide bombing in Somalia, the worst attack to date with at least 200 deaths. Saturday's blast occurred at a junction in Hodan, a bustling commercial district of the capital Mogadishu which has many shops,...

 Germany's Social Democrats beat Angela Merkel's conservatives in a closely-watched state poll Sunday, dealing a blow to the chancellor as she heads into thorny coalition talks to form a national government. In the state vote in Lower Saxony, home of Volkswagen, Martin Schulz's...

BAGHDAD/DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran on Sunday shut its border crossings with Iraq’s Kurdistan in support of measures taken by the Iraqi government to isolate the Kurdish region, the Iraqi foreign ministry said. ”At the request of the Iraqi government, the Islamic Republic of Iran closed...