BAGHDAD, IRAQ, W.G. Dunlop and Karim About Merhi- Top officials ignored ample warnings of an impending attack on Iraq's second city Mosul and grossly mismanaged the crisis that saw jihadists seize...
CALAIS, FRANCE- France and Britain are to sign a deal Thursday aimed at alleviating the migrant crisis in Calais, where thousands of people desperate to cross the Channel have gathered in slum-like...
WASHINGTON, UNITED STATES- The United States on Monday condemned Syrian air strikes on a rebel-held town that left nearly 100 dead, and insisted President Bashar al-Assad must go. "Yesterday's air...
BODRUM, TURKEY, Fulya Ozerkan- Duaa, a 22-year-old Syrian refugee and mother of two, is nervously counting down the hours in the Turkish resort city of Bodrum, hoping this will be the night her...
BEIRUT, LEBANON, Sara Hussein- Syrian government warplanes bombed a market in a rebel-held town outside Damascus on Sunday, killing at least 82 people in one of the bloodiest regime attacks in the...
BAGHDAD, IRAQ- Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi announced the removal of 11 cabinet posts Sunday in the first concrete step of a reform drive aimed at curbing corruption and streamlining the...
BEIRUT, LEBANON- Lebanon arrested Saturday a fugitive Sunni Muslim cleric wanted over deadly clashes with the army as he tried to flee the country, security sources told AFP. "Lebanese authorities...
KOS, GREECE- Scores of Syrian refugees who recently arrived on the Greek island of Kos began registering early Sunday on a ship sent by the government following tensions over a huge influx of...
MOSCOW, RUSSIA- After talks with Moscow's top diplomat, Syria's main opposition group insisted Friday that Russia is "not clinging" to President Bashar al-Assad. The head of Syria's National...
NEW YORK, UNITED STATES- US hostage Kayla Mueller was raped repeatedly by Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the self-proclaimed caliph of the Islamic State jihadist group, before her death, US television...
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