Fighting raged for a third day on Saturday between ISIL (ISIS) and Kurdish forces in Syria after attackers stormed a prison housing members of the armed group in violence that has killed more than 70 people so far. The assault on the Ghwayran prison in the northern city of Hasakeh is one of...

Tongans said they were determined to rebuild their battered homeland in the wake of last week's devastating eruption and tsunami as a massive clean up continued Saturday in the Pacific kingdom. The powerful eruption of the Hunga-Tonga-Hunga-Ha'apai volcano last Saturday triggered a...

A Syrian father and son both missing limbs, whose feature in an international award-winning photograph inspired a fundraiser to relocate them to Italy, arrived at Rome's Fiumicino airport on Friday. Turkish photographer Mehmet Aslan's image which captured the hearts of the judges as well as...

The nuclear talks with Iran in Vienna are moving in the right direction and a final agreement may be within reach, a senior European Union official said on Friday. "My assessment is that we are on the right track for a final agreement," the official, who spoke on the condition of...