( Middle East Eye )- A green steel barrel loaded with explosives and petrol and crammed with bullets, screws, off-cuts from broken machinery - anything metal and sharp - lays bare the crudeness and cruelty of a war in which hundred of thousands have died. But this "barrel bomb" is far from...

 Manuel Valls, a former French Socialist prime minister, said on Tuesday that he wished to support President-elect Emmanuel Macron's political movement in the June elections in the lower house of parliament. "I will be a candidate in the presidential majority and I wish to join up to...

Iranian state TV says that search crews have found seven more bodies at the site of a coal mine explosion last week, bringing the total death toll in the incident to 42. Tuesday's report quotes Reza Morovati, an official in the Golestan government, as saying that the bodies have been taken...

Key members of the US-led coalition fighting ISIS in Iraq and Syria meet in Copenhagen on Tuesday to assess the campaign's next steps as the extremists' "caliphate" collapses. Though officials warn that military action will continue for some time, they are generally upbeat about the progress...