Foreign women linked to the Islamic State group in a Syrian camp are hoping for amnesty after a government offensive weakened the Kurdish-led forces guarding them.

Men from across the globe are being recruited to join the Russian military in exchange for cash bonuses and becoming free ...

China executes 11 members of mafia family that ran Myanmar scam centres - The Ming family for years exerted near-total ...

Camp administrator fears world is 'closing its eyes and ears' to emerging threat ...

The Mings—first among the alleged kingpins of the fraud to face execution—was responsible for the deaths of 14 Chinese ...

Zhang Youxia had been seen as a close ally of the leader, Xi Jinping.

Two British nationals suspected of coming to France to take part in a banned far-right protest against migrants were arrested ...

UNHCR welcomes the decision of the Egyptian authorities for UNHCR to have unhindered access to asylum seekers in detention centres in Egypt and to resume refugee status determination interviews. UNHCR ...

Andrew Borthwick served combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan and, as a member of the British military’s elite Rifles Regiment, faced some of the heaviest fighting in both wars. Borthwick retired as a ...

Lawyers acting for the wife of the captain of a Venezuelan-linked oil tanker captured by US forces are calling for a judicial review of his situation, claiming he is being detained unlawfully. The ...

For nearly a decade they existed in legal limbo. The Kurds could not try them, nor would they free them. Most Western governments, despite American pressure, refused to take their citizens back. But ...