(Reuters- Exclusive) - Islamic State militants have killed at least 500 members of Iraq's Yazidi ethnic minority during their offensive in the north, Iraq's human rights minister told Reuters on Sunday. Mohammed Shia al-Sudani said the Sunni militants had also buried alive some...

(Reuters) - Israel and the Palestinians agreed on Sunday to an Egyptian proposal for a new 72-hour ceasefire in Gaza starting at 1700 ET, officials from the warring sides said. " Israel has accepted Egypt's proposal," a senior Israeli government official said, adding...

Ankara, Aug 10 (IANS) Turkey Saturday denied any involvement in the US air strikes on Islamic State of Iraq and Syria(ISIS) sites in northern Iraq. "The US is using all its resources to bomb ISIS sites that it sees as a threat to its interests," Xinhua quoted Turkey's National...

Washington, Aug 9 (IANS) President Barack Obama said Saturday that the US air strikes have "successfully destroyed arms and equipment" that terrorists with Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria (ISIS) could have used against the Kurdish regional capital of Irbil in Iraq. "We...