( New York Times )- He was the only man I saw when we entered the nearly empty village in northern Iraq, which had just recently been liberated from the Islamic State. The first thing he did when he approached our car was ask my colleague for a light. That’s when I noticed the pack of...

Afghan soldier Zabihullah was chatting with an army comrade at their military base in northern Afghanistan when gunfire interrupted their quiet Friday afternoon.     "I asked my friend what was happening, and he said, relax, it must be one of us."     It wasn't. It...

Morocco has accused Algeria of expelling 55 Syrian migrants across the countries' shared border, criticising it for "inhumane behaviour" in the latest row between the North African rivals. The migrants were sent across the frontier near the desert town of Figuig, Morocco's interior ministry...

Russian authorities said Saturday security forces had killed two armed militants who had been trained by ISIS and were planning a series of "terrorist crimes", Russian news agencies reported. The National Anti-Terror Committee said the two men had been killed in the Stavropol region of...