Civilians and soldiers wounded as Iraqi forces attempt to retake Mosul from Islamic State are receiving treatment in a high-tech field hospital about 20 km from the frontlines. Treating shrapnel, bullet and bomb wounds, the facility - complete with emergency rooms, intensive care units and a...

The UK Government has a "long way to go" to successfully meet its target of resettling 20,000 refugees from Syria by 2020, a group of MPs has warned. According to the latest statistics, 4,414 refugees have been resettled so far across the country since former Prime Minister David Cameron...

 Alois Brunner, an Austrian SS officer found responsible for the World War II deportation of 125,500 European Jews to Nazi death camps, died in a Syrian jail cell in 2001, according to a report by two journalists published in France. Until now, Brunner, Adolf Eichmann's right-hand...

(The Guardian)- Soldiers in Bouaké, Ivory Coast have opened fire and trapped the country’s defence minister inside a local official’s house shortly after a deal to end a two-day mutiny appeared to have been agreed, a Reuters witness said. The turn of events came just an hour and a half...