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The United Nations Refugee Agency says up to 30,000 people remain stranded in searing temperatures on a mountain in northern Iraq under the threat from Islamist militants. A spokesman for the UN Andrew Edwards said that many were in a bad state after
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Reports from Cairo say Israel and the Palestinians have agreed to extend the ceasefire in Gaza for another five days. A Hamas official has confirmed the new truce but there is no word yet from Israel. Kevin Connolly reports from Gaza. 来自开罗方面
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The embattled Prime Minister of Iraq Nouri al-Maliki has said he would step aside from his post and make way for his nominated replacement Haider al-Abadi. In an address broadcast live in state television, Mr. Al-Maliki pledged support for his succes
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The UN Security Council has unanimously adopted a resolution expressing its willingness to impose sanctions on individuals recruiting, financing, supplying weapons or fighting for extremist groups, the move is aimed at weakening the Islamic State ins
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The BBC has learnt that US military planed carrying out airstrikes against Islamist militants in northern Iraq to help Kurdish forces retake a strategic dam near the city of Mosul. Sources in Mosul say at least 11 militants have been killed. Tom Essl
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Kurdish sources have told BBC that the Peshmerga fighters have broadly taken control of a strategic dam in the north of Iraq from Islamic militants. Their ground offensives have been coordinated with the US forces who'd provided air cover. Jim Muir i
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President Obama has issued a fresh appeal for calm in Ferguson after more than a week of unrest sparked by the police shooting of an unarmed black teenager. Mr. Obama was speaking at a White House news conference. 奥巴马总统对弗格森对警察射
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Police in the US state Missouri has shot dead a young black man days after the shooting of an unarmed black teenager by police in Ferguson triggered violent unrest. The shooting took place close to where Michael Brown were killed ten days ago. Here i
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President Obama has described the beheading of the American journalist James Foley by Islamic State militants as an act of violence that shocked the conscience of the entire world.Mr.Obama said no just God would stand for what they have done.Kim Ghat
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Top US defense and military officials had said that the Islamic State group presented a long-term threat greater than any other so far and needed to be defeated in Syria as well as Iraq. Both US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel and his Chief of Staff Ma
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Western powers have reacted angrily to the unauthorized entry of Russian aid convoy into rebel-held eastern Ukraine. The United States call it a breach of Ukraines sovereignty and a dangerous escalation until Moscow to withdraw the vehicle or face fu
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A militia alliance in Libya says it has captured Tripoli's international airport after heavy fighting with the rival armed group. The alliance said it seized the airport despite the airstrikes against it which play down in Egypt and United Arab Emira
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Islamic State fighters are reported to have seized control of the last government held airbase in the northern Syrian province of Raqqa.The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights a UK based monitoring group said the fighters were now in full control of
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Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has dissolved parliament and called a snap election as his forces continue to fight pro-Russian separatists in the east of the country. Mr. Poroshenko said a new parliament was necessary in part to remove members
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Ukraine has accused Russia of launching a new military incursion across its eastern border. Heavy fighting has been taking place on the wide front in southeast Ukraine. Pro-Russian forces are reported to have seized the costal town of Novoazovsk. Fig
