Reuters

Kurdish Peshmerga forces, backed by U.S.-led coalition airstrikes, launched a fresh attack on ISIS militants in northern Iraq in the early hours of Sunday.

The United States won its 1,000th Olympic gold medal Saturday when the American women swimmers won the 4x100 meter medley relay at the Rio Games.

The victims, identified as Imam Maulama Akonjee, 55, and Thara Uddin, 64, were both wearing religious garb at the time of shooting, police said.

U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein said Ankara should stem its “thirst for revenge” after a failed coup attempt.

Tensions between Russia and Ukraine escalated this week after President Vladimir Putin accused Ukraine of sabotage plans in Crimea.

Thousands partied along Havana's Malecon seafront into the early hours of Saturday, celebrating the retired Cuban leader turning 90.

The Caribbean island has recorded 10,690 laboratory-confirmed cases of Zika, including 1,035 pregnant women, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services said.

Malaysian police detained nine militants, including two suspected of carrying out a grenade attack at a nightspot on the outskirts of Kuala Lumpur in June.

The German chancellor came fourth in a ranking of politicians over voter backlash to her refugee policy.

Russian President Vladimir Putin appointed a former diplomat his new Kremlin chief of staff after his long-time ally, Sergei Ivanov had asked to quit.

The pageant is due to be held in the capital, Manila, in January.

Collecting admissible evidence in anti-terrorism investigations is difficult, according to a Canadian law enforcement official.

Attorney Tasnime Akunjee said the family of Kadiza Sultana learned of her death in Raqqa, Syria, a few weeks ago.

A decelerating growth rate — the lowest in 16 years — comes amid fears the country is accumulating too much debt at the local level.

Australia announces $154-million upgrade for Sydney Opera House, the largest since its opening in 1973.

The militants, which are splintered in many groups, say they want a greater share of Nigeria's oil wealth.

Thousands of work permits have been canceled, Education Minister Ismet Yilmaz said Thursday.

More than 2,000 incidents, including sexual abuse, assault and attempted self-harm, were reported over two years at the Australian-funded Nauru detention center.

The suspect was killed during a police raid in a small Ontario town, CTV News and CBC News reported.

The U.S. government is set to announce that it has rejected requests to relax the classification of marijuana as dangerous and highly addictive with no medical use.

Tourist arrivals to Paris fall by 10 percent early this year compared to 2015, according to figures from the Paris region's tourism office, dealing a blow to major sights and businesses who are seeing less visitors.

The group is believed to be confined to three or four of the over 400 districts in Afghanistan.

The Reuters/Ipsos poll figures underscores deep divisions within the Republican Party over Trump's candidacy.

Seven other babies and 29 women were rescued and transferred to another hospital.

A conviction would definitively remove Dilma Rousseff from office and confirm that interim President Michel Temer will serve out the rest of her term through 2018.

The outcome of the vote is a foregone conclusion because opponents of Rousseff, need only a simple majority in the 81-seat senate to put her on trial.

The official on a U.S.-based assignment for NATO is being recalled by the Turkish government in the wake of last month’s failed military coup.

The dark purple spots on Michael Phelps' shoulders shed light on cupping therapy.

Fifty prominent Republican national security officials, including a former CIA director, call party nominee Donald Trump unqualified to lead the country.