The United Nations on Sunday appealed for $152 million to provide shelter, sanitation and food for a huge influx of refugees returning to Afghanistan from Pakistan. Pakistan has stepped up the pressure for its 1.5 million registered Afghan refugees to return home, citing security concerns....

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Officials of the Democratic Union party (PYD) have promised villages of Tal Hamis in Hasaka Countryside to reconnect electricity after days of tension and threatening of boycotting the Kurdish Self Administration, in the same time, armed groups of the PYD raided houses...

 French President Francois Hollande on Sunday began commemorations for the first anniversary of the Paris terror attacks by unveiling a plaque in memory of a man killed by suicide bombers at the Stade de France. Manuel Dias, 63, died outside the national stadium where France were...

(The Telegraph)- At least four people were killed and 14 others injured in an explosion inside the largest US military base in Afghanistan, Nato said, with the Taliban claiming responsibility. The explosion struck at dawn inside the heavily fortified Bagram Airfield north of Kabul, as the...