One of Japan's top doctors has slammed the decision to hold the Olympics at the height of Tokyo's baking summer, warning that heatstroke will be the "biggest risk" during the Games. In an interview with AFP, Kimiyuki Nagashima, executive board member of the Japan Medical Association,...

The market at al-Hol camp is a sea of unidentifiable figures clad in black, clutching their children's grubby hands as they drag them past those haggling their wares. A CNN team approaches a group of Iraqi women. Our request to talk to them sparks debate. "Sisters, don't say anything," one...

In August, some 3,000 Syrians returned to areas of their home country cleared of terrorist groups by cross-border Turkish military operations. Taking refuge in Turkey as civil war gripped Syria, they were able to return after applying to a voluntary return program. The Turkish migration...

Israeli Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon said Thursday a visiting senior U.S. treasury official assured him that sanctions against Iran would remain in full force. "I just finished an excellent working meeting with Sigal Mandelker, the under secretary of the treasury," he wrote on his Twitter...