Three members of a pro-government militia were injured in a suicide bombing in Iraq’s oil-rich Kirkuk province on Sunday, according to a local police officer.   A bomber blew himself up near a headquarters of the Shia Hashd al-Shaabi militia in central Kirkuk, Capt. Hamed...

Turkish Armed Forces and Free Syrian Army (FSA) liberated five more villages on Sunday as part of Operation Olive Branch in northwestern Syria’s Afrin.  The villages of Shaykh Muhammad, Kunda Dudu, Samalik, "Velikli" and "Kavanda" in the Rajo area, located northwest of Afrin,...

PYEONGCHANG, South Korea: Marit Bjoergen grabbed a record-extending 15th Winter Olympics medal as she won the 30km cross country to put Norway top of the final medals table in Pyeongchang Sunday. The cross-country legend, 37, signed off in style after a glittering Olympic career as she...

At least two people were wounded as police fired live bullets and tear gas Sunday to break up a banned protest against DR Congo President Joseph Kabila in Kisangani, the country's third largest city, an AFP reporter said. Hundreds starting marching after mass at the city's cathedral but...