America's top military officer General Martin Dempsey says US forces have already started training Iraqi troops in the western part of the country.

Fresh clashes have broken out in the eastern Ukraine’s region of Donetsk.

US President Barack Obama has confirmed the assassination of American aid worker Abdul-Rahman Kassig, describing his beheading at the hands of the ISIL terrorist group as "pure evil".

The king of Sweden has congratulated the national day of the “State of Palestine” to become the first European monarch to officially mark the Palestinian 1988 declaration of independence.

Israel, not Russia, was behind the downing of the Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 over eastern Ukraine in July, an American political commentator says.

Israeli settlers have hanged a Palestinian man in East al-Quds (Jerusalem) in another incident of brutality against Palestinians in the occupied territories, local sources say.