The visit Massoud Barzani, head of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) in northern Iraq, will pay on Saturday to Diyarbakir with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is being debated in the media.   The arguments made are miles away from explaining the...

 violence against Christian minorities is now a "global crisis" as worshippers are driven out of their ancient homelands by militants, a senior minister warns Christianity is in danger of becoming extinct in its ancient homelands because of a rising tide of sectarian attacks, a...

Philippine President Benigno Aquino was under growing pressure on Thursday to speed up the distribution of food, water and medicine to desperate survivors of a super typhoon as a U.S. aircraft carrier "strike group" arrived to get supplies moving. While international relief efforts...

The case against a doctor accused of kidnapping a British photographer and his Dutch colleague in Syria last year Twas dropped at a London court on Monday. Shajul Islam was due to stand trial alongside co-accused Jubair Chowdhury and his own brother Najul Islam, who was charged with...