BEIRUT, LEBANON- The Islamic State group has executed more than 90 people, a third of them civilians, over the past month in areas of war-torn Syria it controls, a monitor said Sunday. The Syrian...
ANKARA, TURKEY- Turkish warplanes have for the first time joined raids by the US-led coalition against Islamic State positions in Syria, the foreign ministry said Saturday, after Washington urged...
VIENNA, AUSTRIA, Simon Sturdee with Mohamad Ali Harissi in Zuwara, Libya- Hungary said Friday it had arrested four people over the discovery of the decomposing bodies of 71 migrants, believed to be...
BERLIN, GERMANY- Nikolaus Lehnhoff, one of Germany's leading opera directors, has died at the age of 76, the German news agency DPA reported on Thursday. Lehnhoff died on Saturday after a long...
UNITED NATIONS, UNITED STATES- Syria has agreed to grant visas to 47 UN staff members following months of haggling that have undermined UN relief efforts in the war-torn country, the UN aid chief...
PARIS, FRANCE- Two French investigative journalists were arrested on Thursday in Paris on suspicion of trying to blackmail the king of Morocco, legal sources in both countries said. Eric Laurent and...
MIAMI, UNITED STATES, Kerry Sheridan- Scientific studies about how people act or think can rarely be replicated by outside experts, said a study Thursday that raised new questions about the...
WASHINGTON, UNITED STATES, Shahzad Abdul- Vester Flanagan, who killed two journalists Wednesday and appeared to have filmed the murders, drew a troubled portrait of himself in tweets after their...
BEIRUT, LEBANON- Syrian President Bashar al-Assad expressed "strong confidence" Tuesday that Russia will continue supporting his embattled regime, speaking in an interview with Hezbollah's Al-Manar...
PARIS, FRANCE, Marlowe Hood- For nearly a century the carcass of a small, reddish-brown monkey from South America gathered dust in a windowless backroom of the American Natural History Museum in New...
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