The battle for Afghanistan's key city of Ghazni between Taliban fighters and security forces has intensified, with dozens of people reported killed after three days of violence. Politicians from Ghazni who managed to talk to

The Central Bank of Iraq has prohibited all Iraqi banks from conducting business with Iran in US dollars. Iraq shares a 1,500km border with Iran; goods and people cross daily. Iran is Iraq’s second-largest

Eduardo Nodarse and Brayan Martinez Calvo, known respectively as Danyer y El Kometa (D&K), have been making music together for eight years. But reaching stardom is never easy for young struggling artists, especially if

Jordanian search teams pulled the bodies of three attackers from the rubble of their hideout, hours after they opened fire and set off explosions that killed four security force members trying to storm the

BEIRUT: An explosion of unknown origin at a weapons depot in the northwestern Syrian province of Idlib killed at least 12 civilians on Sunday, a war monitor said.An AFP correspondent at the site in

BEIRUT: An explosion at a weapons depot in the northwestern Syrian province of Idlib killed at least 39 civilians on Sunday, a war monitor said.The toll rose after more bodies were retrieved from the rubble

AZAZ, Syria: A “National Army” being set up by Syrian rebels with Turkey’s help could become a long-term obstacle to President Bashar Assad’s recovery of the northwest — if they can end factional rivalries

Washington, DC - More than 1,000 anti-fascist and anti-racist protesters are expected to descend on the US capital on Sunday to counter a far-right rally, one year after the first "Unite the Right" in Charlottesville, Virginia

Thousands of people displaced by the armed group Boko Haram in northeastern Nigeria are returning home despite reports of new attacks. More than 30,000 left the relative safety of camps in Maiduguri to start

The killing of four Palestinian children aged 10 and 11 by an Israeli air strike on a Gaza beach during the 2014 war could have been prevented, internal documents seen by US website The Intercept show.