IRAQ

"If Iran gets a nuclear weapon in a year, or five years, or 10 years, the American people will want to know who supported the deal that gave them that nuclear weapon...and they will hold that person accountable."

A U.N. report blamed the Islamic State group for destabilizing the region, and said it may have committed genocide.

Police reportedly shot the knife-wielding minority Muslim Uighurs during a raid at a rented apartment in the northeastern city of Shenyang.

Academy Award-winning filmmaker Laura Poitras was held more than 50 times in six years while traveling.

Military sources in Anbar said they met heavy resistance from the insurgents, who deployed five suicide car bombs and fired rockets to repel their advance on Fallujah.

The delay is being blamed on "political issues."

"ISIS terrorists do not differentiate among Christians, Muslims, Sunnis and Shiites — they kill everyone. We have to help our Muslim brothers liberate Iraq."

Tensions have renewed between Beijing and Turkey over the treatment of Muslims in China's Xinjiang province.

The move comes shortly after the U.K. defied its critics by committing to a NATO security budget target.

The United States has sent its most senior naval official to re-establish defense ties with the strategic North African country.

Such a base near Islamic State strongholds in Libya would help the United States “fill gaps in our understanding of what’s going on.”

More than 100 people were injured in the three attacks, which targeted Shiite neighborhoods in Baghdad.

The man detonated the explosives in a busy square shortly before dusk and the end of the daily Ramadan fast.

Iraq faces a budget deficit of as much as $20 billion this year as it grapples with low oil revenue and the high cost of war with Islamic State group insurgents.

Hundreds, possibly thousands, of Uighurs keen to escape unrest in China's western Xinjiang region have traveled clandestinely via Southeast Asia to Turkey.

Boko Haram has not claimed responsibility for the attack Saturday, but a police source says there is "no doubt" it was carried out by the militant group.

"This agreement will bring a step, an important step in the road of peace in Libya," U.N. Special Envoy Bernardino Leon told the ceremony attended by Arab and Western diplomats.

The Chinese Muslim minority group have been the focus of attention from China's security services, amid accusations of terrorism.

Anti-ISIS forces in Iraq have apparently refocused their attention from Ramadi to Fallujah, where they report significant gains.

The militant group has marked the Muslim holy month with drownings, bombings and war, but also with aid and assistance to the poor.

In the video, an ISIS militant can be seen fleeing an armored vehicle after trying to conceal it under a palm grove.