TIKRIT, Iraq: Daesh extremists killed five members of the same family at a checkpoint on the edge of their village north of Baghdad early on Saturday, a police official said.The killings took place in

DUBAI: Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said on Saturday they had killed ten militants overnight in a security operation conducted in the northwest of the country near the border with Iraq, the official news agency IRNA

BAGHDAD: Iraq’s Prime Minister Haider Al-Abadi is to visit top trading partners Turkey and Iran next week, an official said Saturday, days after Washington slapped new sanctions on Tehran and piled economic pressure on

A 2010 silver Dodge Charger thundered down Charlottesville's Fourth Street Southeast on the afternoon of August 12, 2017. Behind the wheel, 20-year-old James Alex Fields Jr allegedly accelerated and barreled into a crowd of pedestrians.

This week, the United States reimposed the first round of economic sanctions on Iran, in an anticipated move following President Donald Trump's decision to withdraw his country from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). More

Years of conflict in Libya - especially in its so-called "oil crescent" - have hurt power generation. Many areas endure total blackouts for hours, and constant electricity outages are affecting all segments of life,

People living in the semi-autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq are struggling with a weak economy. Before the battle to push out ISIL in 2014, the economy was growing and there were high hopes

Last year, Tehran sold $126m worth of Persian rugs to the American market, but the new US sanctions on Iran include the hand-woven carpets. But the beautiful rugs are more than just a commodity;

A special tribunal in Colombia is examining more than 2,000 cases of extrajudicial killings between 2008 and 2014. The look into the "false positive" scandal is part of the historic peace deal between the

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Turkey's partnership with the United States is in jeopardy, warning Ankara could start looking for new allies. Relations between the NATO allies have sunk to their lowest point in