About 100,000 civilians remain trapped behind Daesh (ISIS) lines in Mosul with a U.S.-backed government offensive to recapture the Iraqi city entering its ninth month, the United Nations refugee agency UNHCR said Friday. Daesh snipers are shooting at families trying to flee on foot or by boat...

 Israeli security forces shot dead three Palestinians who carried out shooting and stabbing attacks in which an Israeli border policewoman was killed in Jerusalem on Friday, police said. The attacks occurred simultaneously in two areas near the Damascus gate of Jerusalem's walled old...

The EU's powerful anti-trust regulator will decide a historic case against Google in the coming weeks that could see the Internet giant hit with a record fine, sources said on Friday. "We are heading towards a decision this summer," one source close to the matter told AFP on condition of...

Britain is likely to go into arduous talks on its exit from the European Union without a deal to keep Prime Minister Theresa May in power as negotiations with a Northern Irish "kingmaker" party grind into a second week. After a tumultuous week that pitched Britain into its deepest political...