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: Saturday, August 16, 2014, 03:06
Merkel expressed "concern about the situation in eastern Ukraine", her spokesman Steffen Seibert said in a statement.
Last Updated: Saturday, August 16, 2014, 02:43
The UN Security Council unanimously adopted a resolution on Friday aimed at weakening Islamists in Iraq and Syria with measures to choke off funding and the flow of foreign fighters.
Last Updated: Saturday, August 16, 2014, 02:07
The abductions took place on August 10 in Doron Baga in the Kukawa area near the border with Chad, said the official.
Last Updated: Saturday, August 16, 2014, 02:00
UN nuclear watchdog chief Yukiya Amano will visit Iran on Sunday in an apparent attempt to push for progress in a long-running investigation into suspected atomic bomb research by Tehran.
Last Updated: Saturday, August 16, 2014, 01:53
Iraq`s third largest ethnic group after Arabs and Kurds, they include both Sunnis and Shi`ites and have a history of being targeted in previous conflicts.
Last Updated: Saturday, August 16, 2014, 01:49
The new UN special envoy to Libya plans to visit Tripoli as early as next week to seek a ceasefire between armed factions whose clashes have turned parts of the capital into a battlefield.
Last Updated: Saturday, August 16, 2014, 01:10
Ferguson police chief Thomas Jackson identified the officer who shot Brown as Darren Wilson.
Last Updated: Saturday, August 16, 2014, 00:55
Boko Haram Islamists kidnapped scores of people from fishing communities in Nigeria`s extreme northeast, hauling some of the hostages away on boats across Lake Chad, witnesses said on Friday.
Last Updated: Saturday, August 16, 2014, 00:53
Two West African nations and a medical charity fighting the world`s worst Ebola epidemic chided the WHO on Friday for its slow response, saying more action was needed to save victims threatened by the disease and hunger.
Last Updated: Saturday, August 16, 2014, 00:51
Konashenkov lashed out at Western officials launching accusations based on "fantasies" that journalists are reporting on social media sites.
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