Children starving amid 'alarming' Somalia drought
Over 58,000 children will starve to death in Somalia without urgent support, the United Nations warned Monday, amid severe drought in the impoverished and...
Iraq's ruling alliance, Shi'ite militias urge PM to request Russian strikes on ISIS
Iraq's ruling alliance and powerful Shi'ite militias have urged Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi to request Russian air strikes on Islamic State militants, who control...
Turkish Cypriot official: No tensions if waters divvied up
NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Tensions over the search for oil and gas off ethnically divided Cyprus would fade if Greek Cypriots agreed to divvy...
France's Hollande wins cooperation not coalition against IS
The leaders of Russia and France avoided each other's gaze as they made short, stiff statements in the Kremlin on Thursday before talks on...
ISIS fighter numbers fall in Iraq and Syria, but up in Libya
New intelligence assessments show that the number of ISIS group fighters has dropped in Iraq and Syria but is rising in Libya, a senior...
French President: Idea of early Syria elections "provocative"
The idea that elections should take place in Syria in the coming months is "provocative" and "unrealistic", French President Francois Hollande said on Friday,...
Iraq Kurds release video of freed Islamic State hostages
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Iraq's Kurds on Monday released fresh video of freed hostages speaking about torture inside a jihadist-run prison raided last week in a joint Kurdish-US...
Oil falls to 11-year low, Saudi-Iran row seen making output restraint unlikely
Oil fell to its lowest in more than 11 years on Wednesday, down around 2 percent, as the row between Saudi Arabia and Iran...
Latest global developments in the Coronavirus crisis
At least 274,617 people have died of the novel Coronavirus since the epidemic surfaced in China late last year.
There have been more than 3,946,130...
Syrian situation favourable for start of ‘political process’: Putin
Russian President Vladimir Putin, who held a rare meeting with Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad on Thursday, said the situation in Syria is now favourable...
