Investigators pored over a Japanese mountain Tuesday after a massive avalanche tore through a group of high school students and teachers, killing eight, amid questions about why avalanche warnings were ignored and whether they had proper equipment. The avalanche in central Japan Monday,...

A recent spike in civilian casualties in Mosul suggests the U.S.-led coalition is not taking adequate precautions to prevent civilian deaths as it battles ISIS alongside Iraqi ground forces, Amnesty International said Tuesday. The human rights group's report follows acknowledgement from the...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- The U.S.-led coalition airstrikes on Monday killed 6 people, including senior commander from Haya't Tahrir al-Sham in Idlib province, sources told Zaman al-Wasl. The strike targeted a car carrying Abu Jaber al-Hamwi, senior commander in the powerful alliance that...

Iraqi forces said they launched new assaults in Mosul's Old City on Monday after more than two weeks of only small advances and a high civilian death toll appeared to prompt a change in tactics. A March 17 explosion that killed between 60 and 240 people, according to conflicting accounts,...