BEIRUT, LEBANON, Layal Abou Rahal- Twin bomb blasts claimed by the Islamic State group killed 41 people Thursday on a busy shopping street in a Beirut stronghold of the Shiite movement Hezbollah, the...
WASHINGTON, UNITED STATES, Fanny Andre- The Islamic State group is committing genocide against Iraq's Yazidi community, the US Holocaust Memorial Museum said in a report Thursday based on harrowing...
UNITED NATIONS, UNITED STATES- UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday announced the appointment of Italian diplomat Filippo Grandi as the new UN refugee chief, tasked with handling the world's...
BEIRUT, LEBANON, Sammy Ketz- Talks on the Syrian conflict in Vienna this weekend will focus on deciding which opposition groups should negotiate with President Bashar al-Assad's regime and which...
MOUNT SINJAR, IRAQ- Iraqi Kurdish forces on Thursday launched a major operation against the Islamic State group in the town of Sinjar, which lies on a key supply line for the jihadists, a senior...
LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM- Britain is becoming "increasingly insular and self-absorbed", as revealed by its impotence in the Syria and Ukraine crises and its "ambivalence" towards the European Union, a...
NEW YORK, UNITED STATES, Shaun Tandon- Pianist Conrad Tao has played top concert halls from an early age but after the release of his latest album, he chose to perform for a casual crowd in a crypt...
WARSAW, POLAND, Maja Czarnecka- Angered by their country's foot-dragging on Europe's refugee crisis, 30 young Poles are lending a helping hand to refugees in the Balkans, breathing new life into a...
ISTANBUL, TURKEY- Turkish police on Saturday detained seven foreign nationals in southern Turkey on suspicion of planning to head to Syria to join Islamic State fighters, state media said. The...
CAIRO, EGYPT, Samer al-Atrush- Moscow and London were ramping up efforts to pull out thousands of stranded tourists from Sharm el-Sheikh on Sunday, after Egypt said it was too early to know whether a...
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