South Africa is hosting the first Global Anti-Apartheid Conference for Palestine aimed at highlighting the ongoing Israeli war on Gaza and the illegal Israeli settlers’ colonialism among other issues. The three-day conference started Friday at the Sandton Convention Center in Johannesburg...

Scores of Syrian women and children linked to the Islamic State group left a  sprawling camp in northeast Syria  Wednesday and headed home to the eastern province of Deir el-Zour following mediation by tribal leaders. The latest batch of people to leave al-Hol camp, which houses...

BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq has  repatriated hundreds more of its citizens  linked to the Islamic State group from a sprawling camp in northeastern Syria, Iraqi and Syrian officials said Monday. Ali Jahangir, a spokesman for Iraq’s Ministry of Migration and Displaced, said the nearly...

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The Islamic State extremist group poses a rising threat amid political instability in West Africa and the Sahel and remains intent on carrying out attacks abroad, the U.N. counter-terrorism chief said Thursday. Vladimir Voronkov reiterated U.N. findings that IS...