Two mass graves of at least 18 members of Iraq's Yazidi minority, thousands of whom have been killed and kidnapped by ISIS, have been discovered as security forces fight to dislodge the militants from Mosul, a local official said. Kurdish peshmerga forces found the grave near the Shababit...

Music fell silent, weddings were canceled and people wept in the streets Saturday as Cubans faced their first day without the leader who steered their island to both greater social equality and years of economic ruin. Across a hushed capital, dozens of Cubans said they felt genuine pain at...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime warplanes bombed three schools in northern Idlib province, official body said Saturday as air strikes kill 9 people in the southern countryside. The Directorate of Education in rebel-held Idlib said 3 schools in the villages of Kafr Eyn, Maerzeita and...

  Syrian regime forces have retaken "full control" of the rebel-held district of Masaken Hanano in northern battlefield city Aleppo, state media said on Saturday. State television said "the armed forces retook full control" of the largest rebel district in the east of the city, and...