The German government Friday slammed online hate commentaries cheering the unsolved murder of a local politician, who was vocally pro-migrant. "If someone is so hated, just because he had liberal views, that is the decline of human morality," Germany's interior minister, Horst Seehofer,...

Iran rejected French calls for wider international talks over its nuclear and military ambitions, saying on Friday it would only discuss it existing 2015 atomic pact with world powers, state TV reported. French President Emmanuel Macron had said a day earlier that Paris and Washington both...

The father could hardly bear seeing his 18-month-old daughter's panic every time the Syrian regime warplanes flew over their home. Every day for a month, she ran to him to hide in his arms, tearful and breathless. Abdurrahim had refused to flee his hometown throughout years of violence, and...

Resurgent jihadists, ethnic land disputes or regular field burning? Iraq's northern farmlands are on fire, but the area's complex patchwork of grievances has made it hard to identify the culprits. Farmers in the country's breadbasket had been hoping for bumper wheat and barley harvests in...