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2 ruling party officials shot and killed in Turkey

Turkey's official news agency says two ruling party officials serving in district organizations have been shot and killed, and ruling party officials blamed Kurdish militants. The Anadolu news agency says Orhan Mercan, a vice president of an AKP branch in the southeastern Diyarbakir...

Yemen's cholera death toll rises to 1,500

The death toll from a major cholera outbreak in Yemen has risen to 1,500, Nevio Zagaria, the World Health Organization's (WHO) representative in Yemen, said on Saturday, and appealed for more help to put an end to the epidemic. Yemen has been devastated by a 27-month war between a Saudi-led...

Mosul mosque where ISIS took world stage lies in rubble

The leaning minaret of Mosul's Grand al-Nuri Mosque survived conquests by the Mongols and the Ottomans, neglect under Saddam Hussein, and air raids during the Iran-Iraq War and the U.S. invasion in 2003. But after three years of Daesh (ISIS) rule, it is now little more than a pile of stones...

Gunfire cuts short celebrations at recaptured Mosul mosque

Iraqi soldiers snap victorious "selfies" and pose with a captured Islamic State group flag at the Mosul mosque where militant chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi once spoke. "Where is Baghdadi?" they say, taunting the absent militant leader at the site of his triumphal 2014 appearance, the only time...