The firefighters who battled an inferno at a London apartment block that killed at least 80 people last month were hindered by equipment failings including the lack of a high ladder, the BBC reported on Saturday. More than 200 firefighters and 40 engines were sent to the 24-storey Grenfell...

Daesh (ISIS) claimed responsibility for an attack on a remote Egyptian army outpost in the Sinai Peninsula with a suicide car bomb and heavy machine gun fire. The assault killed at least 23 soldiers in the deadliest attack in the turbulent region in two years. Daesh made the claim after...

Iraqi security forces expect to take full control of Mosul in the next hours as Daesh's defensive lines collapse, state TV reported on Saturday. Air strikes and artillery salvos pounded the extremists' last bastion in the city as black smoke billowed over it, a Reuters TV crew said. "We...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian regime forces carried out heavy bombardment Friday of a rebel-held district on the eastern edge of the capital in support of advancing troops, an activist and monitor said. Ain Terma lies in Eastern Ghouta, the largest rebel enclave around Damascus, which is part...