The United Nations is expecting huge numbers of civilians to flee when Iraqi forces mount an offensive to retake the city of Mosul from ISIS militants. It is not clear when Iraqi forces will be ready to attack the northern city. The much anticipated counter-offensive has been repeatedly...

At least 16 Yemeni government soldiers have been killed by a roadside bomb in the province of Marib east of the capital Sanaa, military sources told Reuters late on Sunday. The sources said the bomb, which also wounded six soldiers, appeared aimed at a patrol near an army camp in Marib. They...

Israeli security officers shot dead a Palestinian woman who tried to stab them on Monday, officials said, the latest episode in an outbreak of violence that Israel's prime minister will discuss in talks in the White House. The woman had approached an Israeli checkpoint in the...

Russia and Iran have signed a contract for Moscow to supply Tehran with S-300 surface-to-air missile systems, Sergei Chemezov, the chief executive of Russian state-owned defense conglomerate Rostec, was quoted by the RIA news agency as saying on Monday. "S-300, the air defense...

Washington (AFP) - Global warming could elevate disease, ravage crops and push 100 million more people into poverty without action to prevent it, the World Bank warned in a disturbing new report Sunday. The problem of climate change is already hampering efforts to reduce...

Israeli police say a Palestinian attacker was shot dead after ramming his vehicle into a group of Israelis on the side of a West Bank road, wounding three of them. Police spokeswoman Luba Samri says one of the Israelis was seriously wounded in Sunday's attack. She says paramilitary officers...

STOKE-ON-TRENT, United Kingdom: Jose Mourinho enters the international break with his future as Chelsea manager under closer scrutiny than ever before following his team's 1-0 defeat at Stoke City. The outspoken Portuguese was not even present at the Britannia Stadium Saturday as he served a...

Laayoune (AFP) - Morocco's King Mohammed VI has vowed that revenues from the mineral-rich Western Sahara will continue to be invested locally, on a rare visit to the disputed territory. He was speaking late Friday in the territory's main city Laayoune, to mark 40 years since...

Russia will on Saturday send 44 planes to repatriate its nationals from two Egyptian Red Sea resorts, the Russian Federal Air Transport Agency said as suspicions grow that a bomb caused last weekend's plane crash. Thirty empty planes will be sent to Hurghada, and 14 will be sent to Sharm...

At least 19 people have been killed in Saudi-led coalition air strikes and clashes between pro-government forces and rebels in Yemen's south, military sources said Saturday. The air strikes took place late Friday and targeted two rebel vehicles on a road linking the central province of...

A British passenger jet came close to being hit by a rocket as it came in to land at Egypt's Sharm el-Sheikh in August, British media reported on Saturday, although the U.K. government said it concluded the incident was not a deliberate attack. The pilot of the Thomson flight from...

Leaders of political rivals Taiwan and China met on Saturday for the first time in more than 60 years for talks that come amid rising anti-Beijing sentiment on the self-ruled democratic island and weeks ahead of elections there. The talks between China President Xi Jinping and Taiwan...

The Turkish Armed Forces has released details of a 40-day air and land operation on the terrorist PKK's mountainous bases in Turkey's southeastern Hakkari province. According to local army sources, the operation -- named after Staff Lt. Col. Ilker Celikcan -- was launched on Sep. 27....

Giant posters of Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi in military uniform hang at security checkpoints leading to the Sinai, but the crash of a Russian airliner in the peninsula has shattered the image of control they seek to project. Western officials have raised the possibility that...

The White House said Friday it was "very concerned" with the initial findings of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons about the alleged use of chemical weapons in Syria. "We are continuing to investigate these allegations very closely and to be proactive about the threat...

Unknown assailants shot and wounded two Israelis at a flash-point holy site in the West Bank city of Hebron Friday, the army said, as sporadic violence again erupted in the Palestinian territories. "Two Israelis were shot at the Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hebron," a statement said, with...

In a refugee camp outside Myanmar's provincial capital Sittwe, Soe Hlaing was holding a pink card, the most coveted of the rainbow of documents indicating citizenship status, which gives him a vote in Sunday's historic election. But the 44-year-old Muslim said he will not be exercising...

One month has passed since the beginning  of what some are calling a new Palestinian “Intifada” (uprising) in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem, which has left scores of Palestinians dead and hundreds injured. According to the Palestinian Health Ministry, the total...

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development forecast growth for Turkey at 3 percent in 2015, in a report released on Thursday. The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) expects the Turkish economy to grow 3 per cent in 2015 and 2.8 per cent in 2016, below the...

Federal prosecutors say four men, two of them Indian citizens, have been charged with trying to send money to an al-Qaeda leader. The U.S. Justice Department says it was part of ongoing efforts to carry out violence against U.S. soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan. An indictment filed in...