The long-awaited liberation of Fallujah this week came with minimal damage to the city’s infrastructure, Iraqi officials claim, unlike the disastrous campaign to free Ramadi from ISIS, in which bomb damage and civilian casualties amounted to a Pyrrhic victory.
International mediators trying to promote Mideast peace say Israel's settlement expansion is eroding the viability of a Palestinian state and raises "legitimate questions" about its commitment to a two-state solution.
The U.N.'s special envoy on human rights in Myanmar has said that conditions in camps for members of the Muslim Rohingya minority, forced from their homes four years ago by communal violence, remain poor with overcrowding, the deterioration of temporary housing, and a lack of proper sanitation facilities.
This is a look at the makeup of Blaneau Gwent County in Wales, where more residents voted to leave the European Union than to remain in it: REFERENDUM VOTE: Some 62 percent of those who voted in Blaneau Gwent County in Wales chose "leave;" 38 percent voted "remain." POPULATION: The county had an estimated population of 69,544 in 2015.
Congo's opposition candidate for president has spoken out for the first time since leaving the country in May for medical reasons, criticizing President Joseph Kabila for not reassuring the public that elections will take place on time.
The modern highway connecting Brynmawr to other former coal-mining towns in South Wales was partly funded by the European Union, replacing a three-lane road known for deadly accidents.
The European Union's top official in Macedonia has expressed "serious concern" over the lack of progress in overcoming the country's enduring political crisis, which was triggered by a wiretapping scandal.
Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic says Serbia remains on the EU path though the bloc further delayed formally opening membership talks with the Balkan country.
Italian authorities are cracking down on the increasingly powerful Chinese community in Tuscany, with searches of Chinese-run factories, nightclubs and community groups that resulted in clashes this week that drew the ire of China's foreign ministry.
An international conflict research group says South Sudan is at risk of falling back into full-scale war, just two months after the government and rebels formed a coalition government aimed at ending more than two years of conflict.
Croatia has received the first group of migrants who came to the country under a European Union scheme to distribute the refugees in the bloc's member states.
A young man whose last Facebook post said "we are safe." A baggage porter just doing his job. A Palestinian woman and her 3-year-old son on a Ramadan vacation, leaving their injured husband and father to grieve.
Montenegro's leader has called Russian initiatives on the military neutrality of the Balkans "irrational" and invited the Kremlin to respect the tiny country's right to decide on its NATO membership.
