The shoes are coming off again in Iraq. In years past, Iraqis have beaten their shoes against portraits of Saddam Hussein in a sign of anger and insult. In 2008, an Iraqi journalist threw his shoes at a ducking President George W. Bush during a news conference to vent his outrage at the...

Reuters photographers covering protests in the central Santiago rallying point of Plaza Italia were getting ready to capture images on Monday as the police set about clearing the square for the evening. Jorge Silva, Reuters chief photographer in South East Asia, has been in Chile covering...

As anti-government protests sweep his country, Iraq's embattled premier has found his decision-making powers clipped by rivals and his entourage subject to increasing pressure from Iran, Iraqi officials told AFP. Adel Abdel Mahdi, 77, came to power last year as the product of a tenuous...

The U.S. has started construction of two new military bases in oil-rich areas in northern Syria, mostly in Deir Ezzor province. The military bases are being built in the 113th Brigade area and near al-Sur region, according to local sources. While the footage captured by Anadolu...