The UN yesterday urged Russia to give it control of humanitarian passages out of Aleppo in northern Syria where besieged residents

A maternity hospital in north-western Syria has been bombed, causing casualties among patients and staff, a UK charity says. Save the Children says the bomb, from an air strike, has hit the entrance to the hospital in rural Idlib province.

The head of Al-Nusra Front in Syria said his jihadist group was breaking ties with al-Qaeda and changing its name, in remarks broadcasted yesterday by Al-Jazeera.

The United States has slammed as "provocative" Israeli plans to build hundreds of new settlement homes in annexed east

A woman is critically ill in northern Afghanistan after her husband nearly beat her to death, and cut part of her genitals, family

A massive bomb blast claimed by the Islamic State group kills at least 44 people and wounded dozens in the Kurdish-majority Syrian city of Qamishli.

The number of bodies of migrants recovered on a Libyan beach since the weekend has risen to 87, a media official from the

Air strikes in Syria's divided city of Aleppo have killed dozens of people, according to a monitor, as fighting intensifies across

A suicide car bombing claimed by the Islamic State group killed 12 people at a crowded checkpoint north of Baghdad yesterday, security and medical officials said.

Islamic State group militants yesterday clashed with US-backed fighters in the Syrian town of Manbij, pursuing their

Former Philippine president Gloria Arroyo was released from detention yesterday following nearly five years in a

Videos have emerged online that appear to show Syrian rebels taunting and then beheading a boy they say is a

With jihadist attacks proliferating around the world, the United States has reassembled its coalition partners for

Saudi Arabia's top clerical body renews a 15-year-old edict that the Pokemon game franchise is un-Islamic.

Manila has rejected Beijing's demand that it "disregard" an international ruling that invalidated the Asian giant's claims

Children were among at least 56 civilians killed in strikes by a US-led coalition early yesterday near a Syrian village

Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim yesterday warned against exacting revenge on supporters of the failed coup, as

Afghanistan is failing to protect tens of thousands of children, some as young as five, from hazardous jobs that are

The Philippine government yesterday hailed its war on drugs a "success", as police confirmed killing nearly 200 people

Kuwait has set a minimum wage for its hundreds of thousands of mostly Asian domestic workers, in a first for Gulf states which have come under widespread accusations of abuse.