Human Rights Watch slammed Iraq's prison authorities Thursday for detaining several thousand men, women and children in overcrowded and "degrading" conditions that amount to ill treatment. The rights group said it had acquired photographs from Tal Keif prison in Ninevah province that...

South Sudan's army and several armed groups killed more than 100 civilians in a surge in violence in a southern region of the country after the signing of a peace deal last year, a U.N. report said Wednesday. The armed forces also committed sexual violence including rape against around 100...

Two hundred corpses, including those of people believed to have been executed by Daesh (ISIS) group, were found near the Syrian city of Raqqa, a local official and an activist group said. The mass grave contained the bodies of five men in orange jumpsuits of the kind typically worn by Daesh...

France Wednesday condemned the airstrike on a detention center in Libya that killed nearly 40 migrants, an act that has been blamed on Libyan strongman Khalifa Haftar, who has in the past enjoyed French backing. France "condemns the strikes", the foreign ministry said in a statement,...