Eight people were killed and more than 50 wounded when a car bomb exploded in a crowded street in the Iraqi city of Tikrit Wednesday, a local official said. The car was parked in al-Atibaa Street ("Doctors Street" in English) in downtown Tikrit, which is often crowded as it has many clinics....

 A Saudi soldier was killed by gunmen late on Tuesday in the Eastern city of Qatif, in an incident the interior ministry said was carried out by "terrorist elements." The security patrol came under fire upon approaching a suspicious vehicle, the statement carried by state news agency...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan Wednesday said the "spirit of fascism" was rampant on the streets of Europe, comparing the treatment of non-Europeans there to that of the Jews in World War II. "The spirit of fascism is running wild on the streets of Europe," Erdogan said in a...

Children have suffered the most in Syria's six-year war, and among them the most vulnerable are those separated from their families, a senior Unicef official told Reuters Wednesday. Furthemore, as well as the large number of direct casualties from warfare, many more children have died or...