Iraqi forces gained fresh ground in door-to-door fighting in the Old City of Mosul, a military spokesman said Monday, as the U.S.-backed offensive to capture ISIS' de facto capital in Iraq entered its seventh month. A Reuters correspondent saw thick smoke billowing over the Old City, near...

Repair work at a Basra oil jetty damaged by a tanker collision last month were completed Sunday, two officials at state-run South Oil Company told Reuters Monday. Crude exports from the Basra terminal were not affected by the collision that happened on March 24, when strong winds caused a...

Ten people have died and five were injured when a bus veered off a highway and fell into a river in southern China. The Xinhua News Agency reported that four people were reported missing in the accident Monday morning in Guizhou province. The state news agency says the 19-seat bus was...

Syrian President Bashar Assad is an "arch-terrorist" and it is time Russia realized he is "literally and metaphorically toxic", British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson said Sunday. Johnson said Assad's ally Moscow still had time to be on the "right side of the argument", in a Sunday...