(Translation by Yusra Ahmed) Pro-Islamic State website said Syrian fighter who carried out a suicide attack on rivals of the hardline group in Kirkuk north of Iraq days ago.  'Welayyet Kirkuk' website posted photo of Abu Qatada a l-Jablawi...

(Reuters) - Italian prosecutors blamed the captain of a grossly overloaded fishing boat for a collision which capsized and sank his vessel off Libya, drowning hundreds of migrants including many women and children locked below deck. The few survivors of Sunday's tragedy told...

 Syrian activist Asaad Hanna has escaped death when an unidentified man stabbed him in front of his house in Turkey, according to statement posted on his Facebook page Tuesday. Hanna said the unknown man knocked on his door and as soon as he opened the man stabbed him four times in...

The violence raging in Yemen since late March has left 944 people dead and 3,487 injured as of April 17, the World Health Organization said Tuesday. The UN health agency said the numbers came from health facilities in Yemen, but the true numbers are likely higher since many people are not...