A spokesman for NLD (Opposition National League for Democracy) leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s party has told supporters Monday it is heading towards a landslide victory in Myanmar’s first free and fair elections in 25 years. “We are winning more than 70% of seats around the country, but the election commission has not officially confirmed yet,” said NLD spokesman Win Htein. Ms Suu Kyi ...

It was billed as the moment when Europe finally took responsibility for the influx of desperate refugees arriving on her shores. In late September, European leaders agreed on a plan to relocate 160,000 migrants from the countries they’re flooding into — mainly Greece and Italy. Six weeks later, the scheme has only just gotten off the ground, according to new ...

The men surround the woman as she stands in a hole dug into the stony ground, only her head pokes above the surface. Then they begin to pick up rocks and hurl them at her again and again from close range. Her agonized cries grow louder as the barrage of stones intensifies. The barbaric killing took place in a Taliban-controlled ...

European investigators who analyzed the two flight recorders from the Metrojet plane that went down last weekend in Egypt are categorically saying the crash is not an accident. The investigators said the cockpit voice recorder of Metrojet Flight 9268 shows an explosion and the flight data recorder confirms the explosion is not accidental — there is no sign of mechanical ...

Nigerian troops rescued 338 people held captive at suspected Boko Haram terrorist camps, the Nigerian army said in a statement Wednesday. At least 30 Boko Haram terrorists were killed during the operation on Tuesday, which freed 192 children,138 women and eight men. The army said it recovered arms and ammunition during the raid. The camps were located in the Bulajilin ...

The United Nations announced that the estimation of at least 70,000 children are born with no nationality each year – or about one every 10 minutes as the result of warfare. U.N. refugee agency chief Antonio Guterres reported that stateless can cause children irreparable harm such as “sentence them to a life of discrimination, frustration and despair.” The report mentioned that national documentation is required to receive ...

Gunmen stormed a popular hotel in Mogadishu on Sunday after opening their attack with multiple blasts, Somali officials said. At least 15 people were killed, medical and police officials said. Islamist militant group al-Shabaab, an al-Qaeda affiliate, claimed responsibility for the attack via a Somali radio station run by the group. Many of the dead were civilians, said interior ministry ...

A man who owns an upstate New York food store funded ISIS, tried to send jihadists to Syria to fight with the terrorist group and plotted to do some killing himself — by gunning down U.S. troops who had served in Iraq — federal authorities alleged Tuesday. Mufid A. Elfgeeh, 30, was arrested on May 31, though federal officials didn’t ...

A former model and DJ from Melbourne, described by his former agency as having a promising future, is the latest Australian believed to have been killed while fighting alongside ISIS militants in Syria. The parents of Sharky Jama, 25, were informed of their son’s death via a text message and phone call Monday, said Hussein Harakow, president of the Somali ...

A prominent German ISIS propagandist was killed by a U.S. strike while he was traveling in a vehicle in Syria earlier this month, a U.S. official told the Media. The ISIS recruit Denis Cuspert, also known as Abu Talha al-Almani, had once gone by the name “Deso Dogg” in the Berlin rap scene. He traveled to fight Jihad in Syria ...