
IRAQ
Bomb attacks kill 8, injure 36 in Iraq
At least eight civilians are killed and three dozen others injures in a series of bomb attacks across Iraq.

At least eight civilians are killed and three dozen others injures in a series of bomb attacks across Iraq.

Cameroonian troops are said to have killed at least 70 Nigerian villagers while chasing Boko Haram militants into Nigeria.

A US ship reportedly unloading 10,000 tonnes of rice in Iran has drawn criticism in a country which is seeking to curb imports of American goods.

The Iraqi military says its warplanes have killed eight commanders of Daesh Takfiri terrorist group.

Australian police arrest two men on suspicion of plotting attacks on targets in Sydney.

At least four people are killed in a US drone strike in central Yemen, a security official says.

The death of African Americans by police highlights the “catastrophic failure of human rights in the United States."

North Korea slams Canada's response to the sentence of a South Korea-born Canadian pastor.

South Korea is counting on an imminent annulment of sanctions on Iran to diversify its oil suppliers.

Human Rights Watch (HRW) says the Nigerian army killed unarmed Shia children earlier in the month with no provocation.

The US has been pursuing a wrong-headed policy in Afghanistan for fourteen years, an American political analyst says.

Yemeni forces capture a strategic mountain in the southwestern province of Ta’izz.

An explosion at Sabiha Gökçen Airport in Istanbul, Turkey, has killed one person and injured another.

As many as 3,200 inmates were mistakenly released early from prisons in the US state of Washington since 2002 because of errors in calculating sentences.

South Korea declares official end to the deadly MERS outbreak in the East Asian country.

At least 13 refugees, including five children, die when their boat sinks off a Greek island.

A female Air Force officer, who was an openly homosexual member of the US military, has been identified as one of the six US troops killed in an attack in Afghanistan.

Chilean police clash with student protesters in capital, Santiago.