The Nigerian military said Thursday it had rescued one of the schoolgirls abducted by Boko Haram from the town of Chibok in 2014, one of the world's most notorious kidnappings in recent years. The abduction of more than 270 students sparked international condemnation and heavy...

After a 2-month-old Syrian boy lost both his left eye and his mother in a regime attack on a besieged suburb of the capital Damascus, the world began to take an increasingly visible stand. Since Turkey’s Anadolu Agency first reported the story of the Syrian toddler who became a symbol...

South Africa’s Supreme Court increased Oscar Pistorius’ murder sentence on Friday to 13 years and five months after the state argued that his original sentence of six years was “shockingly lenient”. Pistorius was imprisoned in July last year after being found guilty on appeal of...

(The National)-  ISIL’s loss of Raqqa last week  is an appropriate time to look back on an aspect of the war long taken at face value, namely the true number of those who joined the organisation. Forty months of fighting since the group seized one third of Iraq and half of Syria can...