The battle to take full control of Mosul from Islamic State will be over in a few days and an attempted fight-back by the militants failed, an Iraqi general told Reuters on Monday. "Only a small part remains in the city, specifically the Old City," said Lieutenant General Abdul Ghani...

President Donald Trump is eager to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin with full diplomatic bells and whistles when the two are in Germany for a multinational summit next month. But the idea is exposing deep divisions within the administration on the best way to approach Moscow in the midst of...

Pakistani hospitals on Monday struggled to treat scores of severely burned victims of a fuel tanker explosion that killed at least 146 people, as Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif flew back from an overseas trip to visit the injured. More than 118 people were injured in the explosion in the...

Devastated buildings, piles of rubble and putrid corpses of extremists: apocalyptic scenes unfold in the Old City of Mosul where Iraqi forces are battling the last ISIS group fighters. Lieutenant Colonel Mohammed al-Tamim walks past the body of an extremist half buried under the ruins of a...