LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Islamic State militants have abducted, injured and killed thousands of civilians across northern  Iraq  and uprooted millions from their homes in a bid to eradicate the country's ethnic and religious minorities, rights groups said on Friday....

  By Faris al-Rifai; Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Many activists of aid and relief died in Palestinian camps during the war in Syria, either by the heavy shelling on camps, or by snipers, or even died under torture in detention...

Egypt's prosecution on Saturday referred 240 people to military courts after accusing them of joining the Muslim Brotherhood, burning down a church and a police station in the central province of Minya, a judicial source has said. The source, who requested anonymity, told The...

The number of internally displaced families fleeing conflict in  Iraq  has reached 521,000 according to a government official on Friday. “The last statistic shows 521,000 internally displaced families. More than 2.6 million internally displaced persons exist if the average...