AFP, GENEVA: Islamic State jihadists are still committing genocide against the Yazidi minority in Iraq and Syria, United Nations rights investigators said Thursday. “Genocide has occurred and is ongoing,” Paulo Pinheiro, head of the UN Commission of Inquiry (COI) for Syria said in a statement.…

AFP, WASHINGTON: Senate Democrats claimed a small victory early Thursday, forcing the US upper house to consider legislation to help keep guns out of…

AFP, BEIRUT: Russia announced a last minute 48-hour ceasefire for Syria’s war-torn Aleppo late Wednesday, just hours after Washington warned Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his ally Moscow that they must respect the nationwide truce agreed in February. The vital northern province of Aleppo…

AFP, LONDON: A British lawmaker from the opposition Labour Party has been shot and injured in her constituency in northern England, media reported on Thursday. Jo Cox, 41, a mother of two, was left bleeding on the pavement after the incident in Birstall in Yorkshire, the Press Association cited an eyewitness…

AFP, NIAMEY: The bodies of 34 migrants, including 20 children, who were abandoned by people smugglers while trying to reach neighbouring Algeria were found in the Niger desert last week, authorities said Wednesday. “Thirty-four people, including five men, nine women and 20 children died trying…

AFP, ABU DHABI: The United Arab Emirates has said war is over for its troops in Yemen after a nearly 15-month intervention as part of a Saudi-led coalition in which around 80 lost their lives. The announcement by a government minister, which the crown prince of the UAE’s richest emirate Abu Dhabi…