Last Updated: Tuesday, August 26, 2014, 13:45
Having wreaked havoc in Iraq, the militants started advancing through Syria After US started targeted air strikes on ISIS spots in Iraq.
Last Updated: Sunday, August 17, 2014, 13:12
Feriel al-Zaaneen hasn`t had a shower in more than a month. Like thousands of Palestinians, she does not have enough water to wash, adding to the miseries of life in war-battered Gaza.
Last Updated: Sunday, August 17, 2014, 12:44
Pope Francis today baptised the father of one of hundreds of high school students killed in South Korea`s Sewol ferry disaster in April, the pontiff`s spokesman said.
Last Updated: Sunday, August 17, 2014, 12:43
Scores of Yazidis, mainly children, who fled as jihadists overran their villages in northern Iraq are now sheltering in an abandoned construction site on the outskirts of Dohuk city.
Last Updated: Sunday, August 17, 2014, 12:39
At least three persons were injured today after a moderate 5.1 magnitude earthquake struck Yongshan County of China`s southwestern Sichuan province.
Last Updated: Sunday, August 17, 2014, 12:33
Missouri Governor Jay Nixon declared a state of emergency after a week of racially charged protests and looting over the Aug. 9 fatal shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown in the suburban St. Louis community.
Last Updated: Sunday, August 17, 2014, 11:22
North Korea warned Sunday of a "merciless" pre-emptive strike as it blasted upcoming joint US-South Korean military exercises as a rehearsal for nuclear war.
Last Updated: Sunday, August 17, 2014, 22:21
After the IS killed some eighty of the minority group Yazidi, US warplanes conducted air strikes against the militant targets near Irbil and the largest dam in Mosul, to help Kurdish forces retake it.
Last Updated: Sunday, August 17, 2014, 08:39
The US military has conducted air strikes against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) near Irbil and Iraq`s largest dam in an effort to help Kurdish forces retake it from violent extremists.
Last Updated: Sunday, August 17, 2014, 05:10
A US couple arrested and charged with kidnapping two Amish sisters intended to "victimize" the girls after snatching them from their roadside produce stand, authorities said on Saturday.
Last Updated: Sunday, August 17, 2014, 04:50
Islamic State fighters sweeping across Syria and Iraq are a direct threat to Britain and the country must use all of its "military prowess" to halt their advance, Prime Minister David Cameron said Sunday.
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