Families escaping the fighting in the Iraqi city of Fallujah said Islamic State was forcing them out of their homes and moving them from house to house in the crossfire. "We tried going back to our house, but when we saw lots of other families fleeing, we joined them," said one woman who gave her name as Suad....
Concern mounted Monday for the fate of tens of thousands of displaced Syrian civilians caught in the middle of a desperate fight in the countryside north of Aleppo. Days of clashes between moderate and Islamist rebel factions and the Islamic State group, which has mounted a fierce offensive on two key border towns, imperils...
Donald Trump clinched the 1,237 delegates needed to become the Republican presidential nominee Thursday — a feat that seemed almost impossible just a few months ago. Now, despite the wishes of the Republican establishment, Trump is working to remake the party in his own image. Trump’s no-holds-barred style and...
— Thank you for being alive! — That such emotions fans of Dima Bilan went to the Minsk concert singer in Dozari club. Video of the performance of the actor is not for the faint of heart. During the execution of the hit "Impossible" right in front of Dima was an explosion. A cloud of thick smoke at some...
Actress Yekaterina Volkova was in the hospital s problems with the knee joint. Health Problems star revealed after the festival pre-party "Manor Jazz», in which Catherine presented the concert program. It is learned that tomorrow morning Volkov will urgently operated on, and then about a month to recover....
Rumors about the problems in the marriage of 40-year-old Angelina Jolie and the 52-year-old Brad Pitt do not cease and grows every day with new details. The other day in the Western media there was news that Angie is not just suspects her handsome husband of infidelity. It is said that Hollywood actress accuses her...
Iraqi security forces began an operation Monday to retake the city of Fallujah from Islamic State extremists, storming the stronghold from various points, military leaders said. "We started early this morning our operations to break into Fallujah," Sabah al-Norman, a spokesman for Iraq's elite counterterrorism...
St. Louis Federal Reserve President James Bullard said on Monday global markets appear to be “well-prepared” for a summer interest rate hike from the Fed, although he did not specify a date for the policy move. “My sense is that markets are well-prepared for a possible rate increase globally, and that this is...
Police in Houston killed a gunman on Sunday in a chaotic shootout that left one other person dead, six wounded – including two officers – and set off a fire at a nearby gas station when bullets struck a gas pump, authorities said. Witnesses reported that a gunman approached a man who had just pulled up to an auto...
The Japanese government said on Monday it was doing all it could to secure the release of a Japanese journalist being held hostage by an al Qaeda affiliate in Syria, after an apparent photograph of the man was posted on the internet. The photograph, apparently uploaded to the Internet late on Sunday, showed a bearded man...
A German opposition leader has had a cake shoved in her face at a party meeting — an apparent protest against her position that not all refugees can come to Germany. An activist threw the cake Saturday at Left Party parliamentary co-leader Sahra Wagenknecht in Magdeburg, the dpa news agency reported. A group calling...
Anastasia has announced her intention to go to the next "Eurovision". The actress is confident that she can win. Volochkova said that she would like to perform at the competition not as a singer, but, for example, as a support of the singer. Anastasia does not exclude that she can submit...