LONDON — Olivier Award-winning British theater director Howard Davies, who had hits in London and Broadway directing Kathleen Turner in “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof,” Lindsay ...
SHURA, Iraq — Iraqi forces pushed into a town south of Mosul on Saturday after Islamic State fighters fled with civilians used as human shields, as state-sanctioned Shii...
TOKYO — The younger brother of former Japanese Emperor Hirohito died Thursday at 100.
The Imperial Household Agency announced that Prince Mikasa died in a Tokyo hospital...
Mosul chemical attack possible
BAGHDAD — The U.N.’s public health agency said today it has trained 90 Iraqi medics in “mass casualty management,” with a special focus on ...
SYDNEY — Two men and two women died today after a river rapids ride malfunctioned at Dreamworld, a park on Queensland state’s east coast, Queensland police officer Tod R...
Effort to retake city continues
BARTELLA, Iraq — Iraqi forces fought their way into two villages near Mosul today as the offensive to retake the extremist-held city enter...
BERLIN — Scientists say Europe’s experimental Mars probe has hit the right spot but may have been destroyed in a fiery ball of rocket fuel because it was traveling too f...
WASHINGTON — Secretary of State John Kerry on Friday described North Korea’s government as “an illegal and illegitimate regime.”
Kerry used the unusually tough language ...
BEIRUT — A cease-fire to allow wounded civilians and rebels to leave besieged parts of Aleppo has been extended into the weekend by Russia, but hoped-for medical evacuat...
BEIRUT — The Syrian government today opened a new corridor for rebels and civilians who want to leave the besieged eastern neighborhoods of Aleppo, a move that’s part of...
