A woman and a child have died and hundreds more have fallen ill in a mass outbreak of food poisoning at a camp for the displaced near the Iraqi city of Mosul.

As the Iraqi forces' offensive against the Islamic State group in Mosul enters its seventh month, residents of the city's western districts still under jihadist control continue to flee the ...

Afghanistan is beefing up its elite special forces units, which have been badly stretched by two years of rushing from crisis to crisis to hold back an escalating Taliban insurgency. Samanth ...

Taliban fighters capture the strategic district of Sangin in the southern Afghan province of Helmand, after security forces pulled out, leaving the district center to the insurgents. Samanth ...

The Iraqi army advances into the Hadba area of northern Mosul, recapturing a residential complex after heavy fighting with Islamic State militants while Iraq's elite forces push further into ...