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Baghdad/Geneva: The final battle to recapture Falluja, IS's stronghold near Baghdad, will start in "days, not weeks", a militia leader said on...

Geneva: More than 4,200 Iraqis from Mosul fled to Syria in May, the United Nations refugee agency said on Friday, adding it is gearing up for up to 50,000...

Budapest: A Syrian refugee has made the most of a fad for trim and dyed beards in Hungary, setting up a barber shop in downtown Budapest popular with...

Beirut: IS fighters captured territory from Syrian rebels near the Turkish border on Friday and inched closer to a town on a supply route for foreign-backed...

Kiev: Securing pilot Nadiya Savchenko's release from Russian captivity was a PR coup for Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko but the outspoken woman...

Kampala: Five men were jailed for life in Uganda on Friday for their role in two Al Shabaab bombings that killed 76 people among crowds watching the World...

Paris: French riot police removed picketers and barricades blocking access to a large fuel distribution depot as President Francois Hollande warned...

Washington: US health officials on Thursday reported the first case in the country of a patient with an infection resistant to all known antibiotics, and...

Ankara/Istanbul: The number of foreign visitors to Turkey fell by 28 per cent in April, official data showed on Friday, the biggest drop in 17 years amid...

Srinagar: Six militants and a soldier were killed and two armymen were injured in two separate encounters with security forces in the north Indian state of...