At least fifty people have been killed and 58 injured after a military airstrike hit a busy market in a town in Myanmar’s western Rakhine state. Local aid workers said the riverside commercial…

Passengers and crew aboard a Flydubai flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv helped prevent disaster after a co-pilot allegedly attacked the captain and attempted to crash the aircraft. Israeli officials said the captain…

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…