The last British and American troops have left Iraq, ending the international coalition’s military mission against IS after more than a decade. About a hundred UK personnel left Irbil alongside US forces, completing…

On 20 September North Korea launched two short-range ballistic missiles towards the East Sea. South Korea’s military said the first missile travelled about 300 miles and the second more than 400 miles. The…

Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen have released footage which they claim shows the downing of a Saudi Arabian F-15 fighter jet, amid escalating regional conflict and growing concerns over global energy supplies. The…

Twenty-one people, including five children, have died after a six-storey apartment building collapsed in Gaza City’s Tal al-Hawa district. The building, which was sheltering more than 100 displaced Palestinians, had been damaged during…

Three Palestinian Christians in the occupied West Bank were asked this week for their opinions about the UK’s announcement of new measures targeting Israeli settlement activity. The UK plans to ban imports from…

Philippine authorities say identifying victims of the MV June Aster ferry fire could take weeks or months because many bodies were badly burned. The vessel was travelling from Manila to Coron in Palawan…

An Iranian lawmaker has warned that escalating tensions involving Iran, the USA, Russia, Ukraine, NATO and China risk drawing the world towards a much wider conflict. Kamran Ghazanfari said that existing wars and…

Following our article on 27 August (see), Indonesia is facing a severe crisis as approximately 200,000 hectares of forest and farmland have burned across Borneo since early July. Prolonged drought linked to a…

China’s nuclear power corporation is using artificial intelligence, robotics and digital management systems to improve construction at its latest project, in Guangdong province. The site, employing about 30,000 authorised workers, includes robot dogs…

Christian nurse Razia Noreen has been hailed a national hero in Pakistan after risking her life to save an infant from a devastating fire that killed fourteen newborns at a hospital in Islamabad…