Australia’s immigration minister confirmed Sunday that an asylum seeker baby who doctors have refused to discharge from a hospital in Queensland state will be placed in community detention rather than immediately deported to an offshore detention center in Nauru. The announcement...

Two Palestinian 14-year-olds stabbed and killed an Israeli in a packed supermarket in the occupied West Bank on Thursday, Israeli and Palestinian officials said, as a five-month wave of bloodshed shows no sign of abating. An armed civilian shot the two teens, who were taken for...

Doctors Without Borders says it took the wrenching decision not to formally inform Syria's government or its Russian allies about the location of some medical facilities like one hit by a deadly airstrike this week. The charity says repeated attacks against health facilities during Syria's...

An Iraqi army helicopter crashed on Wednesday due to "hostile fire" west of Baghdad where security forces were fighting Islamic State militants, who claimed responsibility for downing it. The helicopter crashed in the Fuhailat area, a frontline 15 km (10 miles) southeast of the...