Fragments from mortars fired by Islamic State militants at Kurdish fighters in northern Iraq earlier this month tested positive in a U.S. military field test for the chemical weapons agent sulfur mustard, a U.S. general said on Friday. Marine Corps Brigadier General Kevin...

Two passenger trains derailed after flash floods struck a bridge they were crossing in central India , killing at least 27 people in the latest deadly accident on the nation's crumbling rail network, officials said. Rescuers searched through the night for passengers trapped in the trains...

What may be the world's oldest fragments of the Koran have been found by the University of Birmingham. Radiocarbon dating found the manuscript to be at least 1,370 years old, making it among the earliest in existence. The pages of the Muslim holy text had remained unrecognised in the...

(Translation by Yusra Ahmed) Eid al-Fitr, the Muslim holiday which marks the end of the holy Ramadan, is no longer an opportunity for Syrian children to eat sweets and play in Eid Squares on swings or going to funfairs and visiting gardens and animals’ parks.  Eid al-Fitr in central...