BAGHDAD, IRAQ- Nimrud, which was shown being blown up in a jihadist video Saturday, was once the jewel of Assyria, home to a treasure considered one of the biggest archaeological finds of the 20th...
DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES- Bahrain on Saturday extended by 15 days the period of detention for prominent rights campaigner Nabeel Rajab, who was arrested on April 2 accused of spreading false news....
SANAA, YEMEN, Jamal al-Jabiri- The Red Cross and UN flew medical aid into Yemen's capital Friday after southern city Aden was battered by the heaviest night yet of Saudi-led air strikes targeting...
RABAT, MOROCCO, Guillaume Klein and Zakaria Choukrallah- More than 30 people, mostly schoolchildren returning from a sports meet, were killed Friday in Morocco when their bus caught fire after a...
DAMASCUS, SYRIA- UN chief Ban Ki-moon called Thursday for action to prevent a massacre at Syria's Yarmuk refugee camp after Islamic State group jihadists, known for their brutality, overran much of...
MOSCOW, RUSSIA, Anaïs Llobet- Talks between the Syrian government and members of the tolerated opposition dragged on Thursday in Moscow with little sign of concrete progress towards ending the...
PARIS, FRANCE, Pascale Mollard / Stéphane Jourdain- France's TV5Monde television channel resumed full operations Thursday, 18 hours after an "unprecedented" hack by self-proclaimed Islamic State...
TUNIS, TUNISIA- A Tunisian soldier wounded in an ambush blamed on jihadists has died of his injuries, raising to five the number of troops killed in the attack, a government official said Wednesday....
ALTUN KOPRI, IRAQ- More than 200 most elderly members of Iraq's Yazidi minority were freed by the Islamic State group after eight months in captivity and crossed Wednesday to the safety of Kurdistan....
MIAMI, UNITED STATES- Short people face a greater lifetime risk of clogged arteries, according to a study out Wednesday that confirmed the long-known link between height and heart disease by...
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