A protester was killed and another critically injured as ongoing protests in northern Iraq over deteriorating economic conditions turned violent, local sources said on Thursday, Anadolu Agency reports. Security forces opened fire on demonstrators in Sulaymaniyah's Kifri district, according...

A report by the UN refugee agency estimated that global forced displacement surpassed 80 million at mid-year, noting that the full picture for 2020 is not yet established. “With forced displacement doubling in the last decade, the international community is failing to safeguard peace,”...

U.S. President Donald Trump issued a formal threat on Wednesday to veto congressional efforts to block his plans for $23 billion in military sales to the United Arab Emirates. The Senate is due to vote on resolutions of disapproval of the sales later on Wednesday. In its policy...

The overall death toll for Syria's civil war has crept up to 387,000 following the least deadly of 10 years of conflict, a monitor said Wednesday. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which relies on a wide network of sources inside Syria, said the new figure included almost 117,000...