More than 68,000 people have fled their homes since Iraqi forces launched a huge offensive against the Islamic State group in and around Mosul last month, the UN said yesterday, reports AFP. The figure increased significantly over the past week as forces battled deep into the densely populated city,…

A bomb which targeted a paramilitary truck on a crowded city street killed three security personnel yesterday in Pakistan’s troubled northwest, where levels of militant violence had recently dropped, reports AFP. Police said another five paramilitaries were wounded in the attack, which happened…

Turkey yesterday issued an arrest warrant for the leader of the main Syrian Kurdish political party over a deadly bombing in Ankara in February, the state-run Anadolu news agency said, reports AFP. Arrest warrants were issued for the Syrian Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) leader Salih Muslim as…

A powerful 6.9-magnitude earthquake hit northeastern Japan on Tuesday, triggering a tsunami along the coast including a one-metre (three-foot) wave that…