Iraq's armed forces opened a new front against ISIS in Mosul Thursday, advancing on the militants' enclave from the northwest, a military commander told Reuters. The army's 9th Armored Division and the Rapid Response units of the Interior Ministry were headed towards the city, he said....

Rescue workers recovered 21 bodies from a coal mine in northern Iran after an explosion caused a tunnel to collapse on Wednesday, news agencies reported. Reza Bahrami, a mining industry official in the province of Golestan where the accident occurred, said the 21 bodies were those of miners...

The International Committee of the Red Cross has urged Israel not to restrict family visits for hundreds of hunger-striking Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails. In a rare statement, the humanitarian organization criticized what it called a "systemic suspension" of visits by Israeli...

Yemen faces a "famine of Biblical proportions", veteran aid expert Jan Egeland warned on Wednesday during a visit to the war-battered nation, expressing fury over the failure of the "men with guns and power" to end the crisis. Yemen's two years of civil war have pitted the Iran-aligned...