Daesh has released 216 Ezidi captives, most of whom are elderly people, Iraqi officials said. "The (released) group was held captive for more than seven months and has reached a safe place in Kirkuk," Khairi Buzani, general director of Ezidis affairs at the northern region of Iraq’s...

LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) -  United Nations  officials warned on Wednesday of a potential "slaughter of innocents" unless aid and assistance reached a Palestinian refugee camp in Syria where thousands of civilians are trapped up in a vicious battle....

(Reuters) - Eight Iranian border guards were killed by militants in a cross-border raid on the frontier with  Pakistan  on Monday, according to reports in the Iranian media. Sistan-Baluchestan province in southeast Iran has long been plagued by unrest from both drug...

(Editing by Yusra Ahmed) Ayham Ahmed, the pianist who sang with children in roads of Yarmouk camp during its siege, tells the world: “we are people love peace, don’t want war, please give us the peace, give us the childhood.”  In those few words, Ahmed faces the world...