WASHINGTON, UN- The Pentagon said Thursday it will investigate reports that civilians were killed in US-led air strikes in Syria this week but insisted the raids were carried out with precision. The...

SANAA- Media watchdog Reporters Without Borders on Thursday accused Shiite Huthi rebels who have taken near-total control of the Yemeni capital of harassing journalists. The rebels went on the...

BORDEAUX- Japanese dancer and choreographer Carlotta Ikeda has died at her home in France at the age of 73, her dance company said Thursday. Ikeda, whose real name was Sanae Ikeda, was a leading...

LONDON- The youngest and last of the six Mitford sisters, who fascinated and scandalised British society of the 1940s, has died aged 94. Deborah Mitford, the Dowager Duchess of Devonshire known as...

BANGALORE, Gulab Chand- India won Asia's race to Mars on Wednesday when its unmanned Mangalyaan spacecraft successfully entered the Red Planet's orbit after a 10-month journey on a tiny budget....

PARIS- The beheading of French tourist Herve Gourdel by jihadists in Algeria drew global outrage on Wednesday but also strengthened international resolve to confront the Islamic State group. Gourdel...

TUNIS-Tunisia on Tuesday announced that from next month non-resident foreigners will have to pay a departure tax on leaving the country, in a move aimed at boosting the country's coffers. "The...

GAZA CITY, PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES- Palestinian movement Hamas on Thursday began paying a months-long backlog of salaries to more than 40,000 of its employees in the Gaza Strip, the finance ministry...

LONDON- As international military action builds up against the Islamic State, a British Muslim association is taking on the jihadists through Twitter with the campaign #notinmyname. The push by the...