The bodies of 39 Indian construction workers kidnapped in Iraq in 2014 by the Islamic State group have been found in a mass grave,

Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy was held in custody yesterday and questioned by magistrates investigating whether late

Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas labelled the US ambassador to Israel David Friedman a "son of a dog" on Monday during an attack

Turkish-led forces secured the city of Afrin yesterday after a deadly two-month assault that dealt the Kurds a major blow and could

Israeli forces yesterday knocked out a tunnel in the Gaza Strip dug by Hamas militants to mount cross-border attacks,

Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte yesterday called for other signatories of the Rome Statute that established the

Turkey's flag was flying in Afrin yesterday after its troops and Ankara-backed rebels chased out Kurdish militia

A car bomb explosion claimed by the Taliban in Kabul yesterday killed at least two civilians, as the militants maintain

Ten people were killed when a small plane crashed into a house just outside the Philippine capital yesterday, police and

At least 14 migrants, including four children, died when a boat carrying 21 people capsized overnight in the Aegean

Israeli forces have arrested a brother and an uncle of a Palestinian accused of killing two soldiers in a West Bank car

Thousands of terrified Syrian civilians fled for their lives yesterday, as they sought to escape two raging offensives in a rebel bastion outside Damascus and a northwestern Kurdish enclave.

Warplanes pounded Syria's Eastern Ghouta yesterday as Islamist groups tried to resist an advance by Russian-backed regime forces

Syrian troops and government-linked militia have systematically used rape and sexual violence against civilians, atrocities that amount

Thousands of civilians poured out of Eastern Ghouta yesterday as the capture of a key town brought Syria's government even closer to

Israel's military hit Hamas posts in the Gaza Strip yesterday after Palestinians set off two bombs near the border fence, the military said,

An Afghan man taken hostage by the Taliban made a dramatic escape by stealing a gun while his captors were praying and shooting

A suicide bomb blast claimed by the Taliban ripped through a police checkpoint on the outskirts of the Pakistani city of Lahore late

Saudi Arabia will develop nuclear weapons if its arch-rival Iran does so, the kingdom's crown prince said in remarks released

Syrian government forces and allied militias have raped and sexually assaulted women, girls and men in a campaign to punish opposition communities - acts that constitute war crimes and crimes against humanity, UN investigators say.