Ten people, including soldiers and civilians, were killed when a suicide car bomber attacked an Afghan army convoy in southern Helmand province, a local official said. Atiqullah Khan, Nawa district director, said Sunday the majority of the dead were soldiers who were targeted by the...

 U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said Sunday the firing of three ballistic missiles by North Korea this week was a provocative act but that the United States will continue to seek a peaceful resolution. "We do view it as a provocative act against the United States and our allies,"...

( The Guardian )- Iraqi forces have retaken almost all of Tal Afar, Islamic State’s stronghold in the north-west of the country, the military has said. Fighting was ongoing in al-Ayadiya, a small area just outside the city. Iraqi forces were waiting to retake the city’s surrounding areas to...

A Jordanian official said Sunday that Jordan is negotiating with Germany over the legal status of German troops to be stationed in the kingdom, amid reports that disagreements delayed deployment. The German magazine Der Spiegel reported that Germany seeks immunity in Jordan for 250 soldiers...

Clashes in western Myanmar that began last week when insurgents launched attacks against police posts are continuing, with the government and advocates for the Muslim Rohingya ethnic minority trading charges of killing civilians and burning down homes. An announcement posted online by the...

Former technology executive Dotan Goshen carefully arranges some melons at the bottom of a crate, followed by courgettes, tomatoes and lettuce. With a smile of satisfaction, he contemplates his "organic basket" ready to be delivered to a customer. Goshen, a graduate of Israel's...

Pope Francis decried the persecution of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar and prayed they receive "full rights." The pontiff said Sunday there was "sad news about the persecution of the religious minority of our Rohingya brothers." Thousands of Rohingya are trying to flee into Bangladesh after...

 A 51-year old woman left in critical condition after the twin vehicle attack in Spain last week passed away Sunday, bringing the death toll from the incident to 16, local authorities in Barcelona said. "This morning a 51-year-old German woman died after being treated in a critical...

British police announced on Sunday a second arrest in connection with an assault on three police officers by a man armed with a four-foot sword outside London’s Buckingham Palace on Friday. A 30-year-old man was arrested at an address in West London on suspicion of being “involved in the...

Farming in Nigeria is not for the fainthearted. Intermittent electricity means generators are needed half the time. Chronically potholed roads make transport slow and expensive. Fake fertiliser has previously devastated crops, while toxic feed ruined one dairy farm. But for a group of 13...

( The Guardian )- Several hundred Gazans went to the cinema on Saturday for the first time in more than 30 years, albeit for one night only. The long-abandoned Samer cinema in Gaza City, the oldest in the strip but closed for decades, hosted a special screening of a film about Palestinians...

Israel has prevented vital solar panels from operating in Palestinian villages in the occupied West Bank, a report has found.  Villagers in Jub al-Dib have been deprived of basic necessities since before the Israeli occupation began more than 50 years ago. That began to change when...

A serious humanitarian crisis is looming as the United Nations food agency today announced cutting daily rations of thousands of Burundi and Congolese refugees in Tanzania to cope with drying funds. The World Food Programme said today it has reduced daily food rations for 320,000 refugees in...

Rescue crews raced against rising floodwaters on Sunday to pull hundreds of stranded residents from their homes in southeast Texas as Harvey, the most powerful storm to hit the state in more than 50 years, roared inland. The storm has killed at least two people and Harris County Sheriff Ed...

Proposed tighter U.S. sanctions on Hezbollah have been altered enough to allay fears of major damage to Lebanon's economy, a sign Washington is taking concerns about Lebanese stability seriously, banking and political sources said. But banking figures told Reuters Lebanese authorities should...

 Italian Interior Minister Marco Minniti met Libyan mayors on Saturday to renew a commitment to fight people trafficking as part of an agreement signed earlier this year between Rome and Tripoli. The meeting, which Libya's interior minister also attended, focused on fostering...

France will help reconstruction and reconciliation efforts in Iraq as it emerges from the war against Islamic State, French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said on Saturday after talks with Iraqi officials in Baghdad. France is a main partner in the U.S.-led coalition helping Baghdad...

 Turkey's main opposition leader warned President Recep Tayyip Erdogan Saturday that the whole country has a "thirst for justice," opening an unprecedented four-day meeting protesting alleged violations under his rule. Kemal Kilicdaroglu, head of the secular Republican People's Party...

Her bruised eyes still swollen shut, Buthaina Muhammad Mansour, believed to be four or five, doesn't yet know that her parents, five siblings and uncle were killed when an air strike flattened their home in Yemen's capital. Despite concussion and skull fractures, doctors think Buthaina will...

Venezuela kicked off two days of military drills on Saturday in response to US President Donald Trump's threat of military action and newly announced sanctions on the crisis-stricken nation. War planes, tanks and 200,000 troops of the National Bolivarian Armed Forces (FANB) deployed along...