Iraq yesterday announced that its forces have recaptured a northern town from the Islamic State group in an operation launched ahead of a push for the city of Mosul.

Rescuers brought more bodies to shore yesterday a day after a boat crowded with migrants capsized off the coast of Egypt, drowning at least 51 people.

UN aid convoys starting rolling in Syria again yesterday, after a deadly attack on humanitarian trucks and a warehouse triggered a suspension in deliveries.

Syria President Bashar Assad rejected US accusations that Syrian or Russian planes struck an aid convoy in Aleppo or that his troops were

Israeli authorities have arrested at least 35 Palestinians over the last few days in raids following a spike in violence ahead of upcoming Jewish holidays, officials said yesterday.

Saudi-led coalition air strikes have killed 20 civilians in a rebel-held port city in Yemen, a government official said in a rare admission of

Afghanistan yesterday signed a peace agreement with notorious warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, paving the way for him to make a political comeback despite a history of war crimes and after years in hiding.

Six Bangladeshi workers are killed and another was injured in a road accident in Saudi Arabia. The accident takes place when a car carrying the workers collides head-on with another car at Qatif town, 350 kilometres off the capital, Riyadh, according to Bangladesh ambassador to Saudi Arabia.

A boat carrying around 600 migrants has capsized off the Egyptian coast, killing at least 29 people, security sources

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has launched a profanity-filled tirade against the European Union, in his latest

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon yesterday warned it was a "make or break moment" for Syria as the UN Security

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani arrived in Cuba Monday where he met with his counterpart, Raul Castro, and the

Iraqi forces launched an operation yesterday to retake the northern town of Shirqat from Islamic State, a stepping

Ahmad Khan Rahami, a 28-year-old Afghanistan-born American, was taken into custody on Monday morning following

US Secretary of State John Kerry insisted yesterday that hopes for a ceasefire in Syria remain alive after meeting with

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has asked for a six-month extension for his war on drugs, saying there are too

The UN rights chief yesterday made a rousing appeal to confront the world's "race-baiting bigots" at the first-ever

The death toll from a Taliban suicide bomb attack on a mosque in northwest tribal Pakistan has risen to 36, including

Eastern Libyan forces said they had reestablished control over two oil ports where an ousted faction launched a

World leaders are gathering in New York today for a major UN summit on tackling the refugee and migrant crisis.