Police in Iraq say Daesh (ISIS) militants have fired mortar rounds at a soccer field near a Shiite shrine, killing six civilians and wounding nine others. The attack occurred late Saturday in the village of Daquq, in Iraq's northern Kirkuk province, as people were exercising. Police...

 A senior Revolutionary Guards commander denied on Sunday that Iranian targets had been hit in Israeli air strikes in Syria, the semi-official ILNA news agency reported. Israeli aircraft on Saturday struck Iranian forces near Damascus that had been planning to launch “killer...

North Korea said Sunday leader Kim Jong Un supervised the test-firing of a "newly developed super-large multiple rocket launcher," another demonstration of its expanding weapons arsenal apparently aimed at increasing its leverage ahead of a possible resumption of nuclear talks with the U.S....

Protesters gathered at a sports stadium Sunday as Hong Kong braced for more anti-government rallies, a day after clashes returned to the city's streets following several days of relative calm. Hong Kong has been gripped by three months of street demonstrations that started against a...