(The Daily Star)- A major Pakistani militant group worked with ISIS to carry out a huge raid on a police academy in the country's southwest this week that left more than 60 dead, a spokesman said Wednesday. The claim appears to confirm analysts' predictions that the Middle East based group,...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 23 civilians, including seven children, have been killed in Russian air strikes on a school complex in Hass town in northern Idlib province, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and local activists said.  The Observatory, a British-based war monitor, said...

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte sought to assure Japan on Wednesday that his high-profile visit to China last week was about economics, not security, and vowed to stand on Tokyo's side over the disputed South China Sea when the time came. Earlier in the day, Duterte reiterated his harsh...

(Human Rights Watch)- Homemade landmines have killed and injured hundreds of civilians, including dozens of children, in Manbij, a city in northern Syria. The antipersonnel mines, often called improvised explosive devices, were planted by the extremist group Islamic State, also known as ISIS,...