KIRKUK- Iraqi aircraft carried out strikes targeting jihadists in the Amerli area on Friday as security forces ready a major assault to break through to the besieged Shiite Turkmen town, officers...

CAIRO- An Egyptian jihadist group on Thursday released a video in which it claimed responsibility for beheading four men accused of being "Israeli informants" before showing the victims' decapitated...

GAZA CITY, Adel Zaanoun- Vital humanitarian aid poured into Gaza on Thursday as residents began rebuilding their lives following a devastating 50-day war between Israel and Hamas that experts say...

WASHINGTON- Four guards with the Blackwater private security firm shot dead unarmed Iraqi civilians, including women and children, who were desperately trying to flee for their lives, a prosector...

CAIRO- Egypt has opened an investigation into deposed president Mohamed Morsi for allegedly handing over to Qatar "documents relevant to national security," state news agency MENA reported on...

NEW DELHI, Abhaya Srivastava- Doctors in India have removed the skeleton of a foetus that had been inside a woman for 36 years in what is believed to be the world's longest ectopic pregnancy, a...

GUANGZHOU, Felicia Sonmez- Free-wheeling and business-oriented, the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou is a long way from Beijing physically, culturally and linguistically -- and hackles have been...

LONDON, Naomi O'Leary- Campaign leaders clashed over Scotland's future in a fiery final TV showdown on Monday, with the pro-independence side hoping a strong showing will help vault a stubborn gap in...

BAGHDAD, W.G. Dunlop- Iraq called Sunday for global support for its fight against jihadists, as Shiite neighbour Iran said it was helping Baghdad resist the militants but not with soldiers on the...