Tens of thousands of people celebrated the New Year festival of Newroz in Turkey's overwhelmingly Kurdish city of Diyarbakir Tuesday, even as police killed a man who claimed to be carrying a bomb. The annual event, which received official permission, took place under heavy security ahead of...

 Iraqi forces gained ground from ISIS in Mosul and have deployed snipers in the Old City to target the extremists, officers said Tuesday. Iraqi forces launched a major operation to recapture west Mosul -- the most-populated urban area still held by ISIS -- on February 19, and have...

ISIS has claimed responsibility for a car bombing in Baghdad that killed 27 people the previous day, shattering a relative lull in the Iraqi capital. The extremist group says in an online statement posted on an ISIS-affiliated website hours after the attack that a militant parked the...

Six-year-old Aya al-Souqi, a Syrian refugee, held the camera phone up to her gaze and listened to hear her mother. "I hear you!" she exclaimed. It was only the second time she'd spoken to her mother in Beeskow, Germany since getting fitted with a hearing aid by a Chicago-based charity to...