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...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Three civilians killed early Sunday in Ghouta suburbs as regime and allied militias launched fresh ground and aerial strikes on the eastern enclave of Damascus in spite of a UN resolution calling for a 30-day truce, local activists said. Activists say 500 people have...

QAMISHLI (AFP)- Iraq and Syria’s Kurds have netted foreign militants by the thousands but while the former is expediting trials, the latter would rather send them home. A Baghdad court Monday sentenced French woman Melina Boughedir to seven months in prison, a term she had already served by...