Militants who have seized a large swathe of northern and north-central Iraq now plan to march on the capital Baghdad,…
Militants have seized the Iraqi city of Tikrit as a jihadist offensive sweeps closer to Baghdad, prompting the UN Security…
Afghans head to the polls this weekend for a second-round election to choose a successor to President Hamid Karzai, with…
Multiple Bombings that included a suicide attack on tribal leaders in Baghdad hit central and southern Iraq yesterday killing at…
Transport in major European cities has been disrupted by twin strikes, affecting taxis and rail services. Two-thirds of trains were…
A court in Egypt has sentenced one of the country's most prominent pro-democracy activists, Alaa Abdul Fattah, to 15 years…
An indigenous man in Bolivia whose reported age would have made him the oldest person ever known, died on Monday…
The World Bank unanimously approved on Tuesday the Dasu hydro electric power project and in a surprise move for Pakistan…
In a stunning assault that exposed Iraq´s eroding central authority, al-Qaida-inspired militants overran much of Mosul on Tuesday, seizing government…
