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Iraqi forces clashed with Islamic State militants near Falluja on Monday while bombing central districts in the initial hours of an offensive to retake the militant stronghold just west of Baghdad that could last several weeks. Some of the first...

President Barack Obama has announced the US is fully lifting its embargo on sales of lethal weapons to Vietnam, its one-time enemy. Speaking during a visit to communist Vietnam and talks with its leaders, Mr Obama said the move removed...

SAN FRANCISCO, May 19, (THEWILL) – An EgyptAir plane with 69 people on board vanished at dawn on Thursday en route to Cairo from Paris after losing communications with radar around 2:45 am Cairo time when that the plane...

Weeks after suspected Islamist militants hacked Bangladesh's most prominent gay rights activist to death in his apartment along with an associate, another friend received a chilling message that he was next in line. "Say your prayers, confess to God for...

Aid from the Red Cross and Syrian Red Crescent entered the besieged Damascus suburb of Harasta for the first time in four years on Wednesday, a spokesman said. A convoy of trucks jointly organised with the United Nations carried food,...

Powerful Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr has ordered his armed followers to withdraw from the streets of Baghdad districts that have been hit by deadly bombings claimed by Islamic State, an aide said on Wednesday. Sadr's Saraya al-Salam, or Peace Brigades,...

More than half the Democrats in the Senate, including many of President Barack Obama's strongest supporters, signed a letter to him on Wednesday urging him to move more quickly to admit Syrian refugees into the United States. Despite Obama's pledge...

SAN FRANCISCO, May 17, (THEWILL) – Public officials who are Catholic should not be obliged to celebrate gay marriages or civil unions, Pope Francis said on Tuesday. The pope’s declaration is the first public comment on the issue since same-sex...

The US and other world powers have said they are ready to arm Libya's UN-backed unity government to help it fight the self-styled Islamic State (IS) group. Speaking in Vienna, US Secretary of State John Kerry said world powers would...

Turkish and U.S.-led coalition forces struck Islamic State targets north of the Syrian city of Aleppo on Sunday, killing 27 fighters, state-run Anadolu Agency and other media reported. Turkish artillery and rocket launchers fired into Syria while warplanes from the...