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Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was said to have died in a raid by Joint Special Operations Command's Delta Force operatives Saturday, sources told International Business Times.

The dangers of illegal crossings into Europe were laid bare this week when 31 men and eight women - most believed to be from Vietnam - were found dead in a refrigerated truck in Britain

Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, pictured October 23, 2019, has raised the prospect of more ethnic violence

Like others in Nghe An who fear the worst, Pham Thi Tra My's family keep a portrait of her on a prayer altar

Turkish Foreign Affairs Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu (R) and his German counterpart Heiko Maas give a joint press conference after their meeting

Pham Van Thin, father of 26-year-old Pham Thi Tra My, who is believed to be among the dead after her family received a heart-wrenching text message from her on Wednesday before the immigrants were discovered

Maria Butina clutched bouquets of flowers and exclaimed that "Russians don't surrender" as she arrived in Moscow on Saturday after serving nine months in a US jail for acting as a Russian government agent.Butina flew into Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport after being deported from Miami following her release on Friday, AFP journalists said. She had been held in Florida's Tallahassee prison."I didn't give up because I know I simply didn't have the right," Butina told a waiting crowd of journalists. "Russians don't surrender!"

Pham Van Thin, father of 26-year-old Pham Thi Tra My, who is believed to be among the dead after her family received a heart-wrenching text message from her on Wednesday before the immigrants were discovered

Former U.S. Marine Paul Whelan says he was assaulted by prison guards in Russia.

NGOs say of the 500,000 Syrian refugees in Istanbul, more than 25,000 are living illegally

An attorney for Tim Morrison said the National Security Council member would comply with a subpoena to appear next Thursday.

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg and US Defense Secretary Mark Esper discussed potential threats to 5G telecoms networks

Steppe eagles face rapid decline due to the spread of farming land across their territory and are vulnerable to wind turbines

Upon returning home from Japan, Duterte met with doctors who ruled out any surgical procedures.

A decades-long economic boom pulled millions of people out of poverty but the wealth has yet to reach all corners of China

Elon Musk-led SpaceX is readying for a crucial test of its Crew Dragon capsule that is being made for NASA to ferry astronauts to the International Space Station. SpaceX tweeted some visuals of the Crew Dragon tests.

Wenger says that he misses management -- even in freezing, rainy nights in northern England

US troops have been pulling out of Syria for days but some forces remain in eastern districts, where government forces have been deploying but have not yet re-established full control

"You can imagine there are going to be a lot of countries to step up to the plate at a level that would say 'OK, that warrants having an astronaut on the surface of the Moon,'" NASA chief Jim Bridenstine said

A man walks past a Dia supermarket in Madrid on February 5, 2019.Russian billionaire Mikhail Fridman's holding company LetterOne has made a buyout offer for Spain's Dia Group supermarket chain

NATO defence ministers Thursday slammed Turkey for its military operation in Syria conducted with Russia's help, but recognised there was little they could do to sanction their strategically important ally.The first day of a two-day meeting of the ministers in Brussels was dominated by the issue, with Turkey isolated among the 29 member states because of its incursion against Kurdish fighters it considers "terrorists" but who are key in the fight against the Islamic State (IS) group in Syria.