Conflict Pictures

While some Iraqis are being pampered, thousands of others just a short distance away are trying to get into a crowded refugee camp.

With multiple infringements occurring every day, one has to wonder whether there is a ceasefire in place at all.

Mayor of London Sadiq Khan has invited Londoners to come together for a candlelit vigil at Trafalgar Square from 6pm on 23 March.

An assailant armed with a knife has been shot outside the Houses of Parliament in London, and at least a dozen people have been injured on Westminster Bridge.

Islamic State has lost much territory and many fighters as it comes under attack from the US-backed coalition in Iraq and three separate ground forces in Syria.

Reuters photographer Khaled Abdullah has documented the lives of the children at al-Shawkani Foundation for Orphan Care, who have born the brunt of the country's collapse.

The women and their children escaped from an army crackdown in their home country.

Vintage cars owned by Mohammad Mohiuddin Anis, 70, have been reduced to twisted hulks of rusted metal, just as Aleppo has been reduced to piles of shattered glass and dusty debris.

Inside Mosul's antiquities museum, which once housed priceless Mesopotamian artefacts dating back thousands of years.

Iraqi forces are facing increasingly stiff resistance from Islamic State militants, who are using suicide car bombs and snipers to defend their last major stronghold in Iraq.

A strategically positioned, well hidden, sniper can pin down the advancing Iraqi forces for days.

Photographs show the isolated state's leader looking through binoculars and smiling as the four missiles were launched into the sea towards Japan.

Miliants barricaded both ends of the tunnel, ripped up the tracks and built an assault course inside, on which to train their recruits.

Iraqi forces have faced their heaviest clashes in their battle to reclaim western Mosul from Isis.

This was the second time the ancient Syrian city, a Unesco heritage site, had been recaptured from the militants in the course of Syria's six-year war.

Over 10,000 civilians have fled Isis-held districts since government forces breached the city's southern defences on 23 February.

Documents, found by Reuters, include some of the first first-hand accounts from Isis suicide bombers to be made public, offering an insight into the mindset of young recruits.

South African police fired tear gas, water cannon and rubber bullets to break up rival marches by hundreds of protesters in Pretoria.

The US-backed government forces hope to use the airport as a launchpad for their campaign to expel the jihadists from Mosul.

Theo is becoming a symbol — a young, black man working as an educator in a poor neighbourhood northeast of Paris who stood up against police violence.

Syrian Democratic Force fighters now control most of the villages and towns north of Raqqa.

Retired policeman Arturo Lascanas said he was one of the ringleaders of the "death squad" that began operating when Rodrigo Duterte became mayor of the city in 1988.

Federal police and elite interior ministry units known as Rapid Response are leading the charge toward the airport, just south of the city.

A three-day mourning against the terrorist act on the shrine of Lal Shahbaz Qalandar will be observed across Sindh.

House was struck is said to belong to Mohammad al-Nakaya, a tribal chief allied with Yemen's Houthi movement.

Protesters in the 18th District in northern Paris set piles of rubbish on fire in the streets while riot police threw tear gas canisters, which were thrown back at them.

Four French police officers accused of using excessive force including raping male suspect with baton.

Its closure would have resulted in over 200,000 people having to return to war-torn Somalia.

US soldiers have begun relocating throughout the region to train with European allies in Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Romania.

Isis militants are now surrounded by the army from the south and Turkish-backed rebels from the north.