South Korean soldiers fired 20 warning machine gun rounds Thursday, turning back North Korean soldiers apparently pursuing a comrade who had earlier dashed across the rivals' shared border, officials said. It is the fourth time this year a North Korean soldier has defected across the world's...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Six civilians, including four children, were killed on Wednesday when an ISIS blast rocked a checkpoint for the U.S.-led Kurdish forces in eastern Deir Ezzor province, local media unit said. Furat (Euphrates) Post news site reported that the ISIS car bomb had targeted a...

Protests raged for a third day in Iraqi Kurdistan on Wednesday despite a clampdown by security forces after five people were killed as ire exploded at the calamitous fallout from an independence vote. Demonstrators in the town of Rania, where five protesters were shot dead and dozens...

Leading Kurdish opposition movement Gorran has withdrawn its ministers from Iraq's semi-autonomous Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) and its member Yousif Mohamed has resigned as parliament speaker, party sources told Reuters on Wednesday. The Kurdistan Islamic Group (Komal), another...