French authorities were on Monday clearing the last shacks in the Calais "Jungle", signalling the end of the notorious camp, as attention turned to the thousands of migrants sleeping rough in Paris. The authorities have said that nothing will be left of the notorious Jungle, home to around...

About 220 African migrants forced their way through a barbed wire fence into Spain's North African enclave of Ceuta Monday, clashing with Spanish police who tried to prevent them from crossing the border with Morocco. Thirty-two migrants were treated in hospital for minor injuries after...

 Iraqi special forces neared the eastern city limits of Mosul on Monday, tightening the noose as the offensive to retake the Islamic State group stronghold entered its third week. Forces from the elite Counter-Terrorism Service (CTS) faced mortar fire as they pushed from the Christian...

Three Turkish soldiers and 13 Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militants were killed on Monday during clashes in Turkey's largely Kurdish southeast, security sources said. Turkish soldiers were on an operation in the Daglica district of Hakkari province, which borders Iraq, when clashes broke...

Syria's political opposition hopes Hillary Clinton wins the U.S. presidential election next week because she has a better understanding of the conflict than Donald Trump, according to members of a delegation holding talks at the United Nations. Khaled Khoja and Hind Kabawat, in Geneva Monday...

 Egypt's Health Ministry says recent floods have killed 26 people and injured 72 others across the country. Ministry spokesman Khaled Megahed says Monday that the flooding hit four provinces – Southern Sinai and the Red Sea, as well as Sohag and Bani Suef in Upper Egypt. He says in...

 A police operation is underway in a Paris migrant camp that has resurged in recent weeks in a new challenge to French government efforts to tackle the migrant crisis. Paris police and regional officials say the operation Monday is not an evacuation, but aimed at verifying migrants'...

(The Daily Star)- Egyptian security officials say militants have attacked the same army checkpoint in Sinai where 12 soldiers were killed earlier this month, this time leaving one soldier dead. They say the attack on Bir el-Abd took place Monday. It's about 80 kilometers, or 50 miles, east...

(The Guardian)- Britain is hosting crisis talks with Libya’s leaders in London on Monday in an attempt to ward off the collapse of the country’s war-torn economy. Leaders of the embattled UN-backed government are meeting in a US-led initiative, hosted by the UK Foreign Office, as diplomats...

Oil prices extended declines on Monday after non-OPEC producers made no specific commitment to join the OPEC in limiting oil output levels to prop up prices, suggesting they wanted the oil producing group to solve its differences first. Officials and experts from OPEC countries and non-OPEC...

Some 300 million children live with outdoor air so polluted it can cause serious physical damage, including harming their developing brains, the United Nations said in a study released on Monday. Nearly one child in seven around the globe breathes outdoor air that is at least six times...

(Independent)- Three Russian submarines armed with cruise missiles have reportedly joined a naval battleforce heading towards Syria. The Royal Navy and Nato have been tracking the two Akula-class submarines and a diesel-powered Kilo-class sub as they travelled to join the fleet of Russian...

Iraqi troops including elite counter terrorism forces resumed an offensive on the eastern front of Mosul on Monday, a military statement said, targeting the eastern bank of the Tigris river which divides the northern Iraqi city. The elite counter terrorism unit had paused its advance last...

Twenty-six years after being forced from Lebanon's presidential palace and into exile by the Syrian army, Michel Aoun is set to be elected head of state on Monday, backed by many of his old enemies. Barring a surprise, many of Lebanon's sectarian politicians will back the 81-year-old Christian...

Saudi authorities announced on Sunday they had prevented a terror plot targeting a stadium in Jeddah prior to an international football match against the UAE attended by thousands. The four suspects, two Pakistanis, a Syrian and a Sudanese citizen, were arrested after foiling the plot which...

(The Daily Star)- Iraqi forces said Sunday that they recaptured a series of villages surrounding jihadist-held Mosul as the operation to retake the city from the Islamic State group neared its third week. Tens of thousands of Iraqi troops and Kurdish peshmerga fighters have been advancing on...

(Sky News)- Family members of US consulate staff in Istanbul have been ordered to leave because of security concerns. The information follows a warning last week of increased threats from extremist groups and advice that US citizens should carefully consider any travel within Turkey. The...

(The Daily Star)- A car bomb parked in a shopping street of a Shiite district of Baghdad killed at least eight people and wounded more than 30 others on Sunday, police and medical staff said. The bombing, which hit the Hurriya district, came as Iraqi security forces are engaged in an...

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said Sunday that neither he or his department had been contacted by the FBI over its renewed investigation into his predecessor Hillary Clinton's emails. "No, I haven't been notified of anything, no, I haven't been requested of anything, no, I'm not aware...

(The Daily Star)- Bayern Munich will be without Spain international Javi Martinez for Tuesday's Champions League clash at PSV Eindhoven, the German giants have confirmed. The center-back went off after only 29 minutes of the Bundesliga leaders' 3-1 win at Ausgburg Saturday and Bayern...