KHARTOUM, SUDAN- Yemen's exiled President Abedrabbo Mansur Hadi said on Saturday that his forces were battling Shiite Huthi rebels across the country to check "Iranian expansion" in the region. Hadi...
VIENNA, AUSTRIA- Austrian police said Saturday that they intercepted another truck containing 26 migrants and that three young children had to be hospitalised, days after 71 people died in an...
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND- Satellite images confirm the destruction of the Baal Shamin temple in Syria's Palmyra, the United Nations said Friday, after international condemnation of the act claimed by the...
OSLO, NORWAY- Edward Snowden will be represented by an empty chair next week when he is honoured with a freedom of expression prize in Norway, as he fears extradition to the US, organisers said...
CAIRO, EGYPT- An Egyptian court sentenced to death 12 members of the Islamic State group Thursday for planning attacks against police and soldiers in the country, a judicial official said. Six of...
VIENNA, AUSTRIA, Simon Sturdee and Nina Lamparski- Austrian police found the decomposing bodies of up to 50 migrants in an abandoned truck on Thursday, sparking a cross-border hunt for the...
PARIS, FRANCE- UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon urged countries to show compassion and do "much more" to end the escalating migration crisis. He said during a visit to Paris that the hundreds of...
WASHINGTON, UNITED STATES- The newly appointed US special envoy for Syria will travel to Geneva, Moscow and Riyadh this week as American efforts to find a political solution to the conflict...
RIYADH, SAUDI ARABIA- Saudi King Salman will visit the United States next month for the first time since acceding the throne and following a rift over America's rapprochement with Iran, a diplomat...
PARIS, FRANCE, Eric Randolph- Prosecutors have charged a Moroccan man over last week's attack on a high-speed French train, accusing him of a "targeted and premeditated" jihadist assault that would...