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Residents of the city and local villages have fled with whatever belongings they could carry and have set up makeshift camps in the desert.

The fighting between Ukraine and Russian-backed separatists has damaged vital infrastructure, leading to power outages with temperatures as low as minus 18 Celsius.

Corporate buildings, including banks and ATMs were vandalised, and a Starbucks coffee shop was looted.

Hotel rooms are littered with bullet casings, food containers, cigarette butts and a few used syringes.

The warring sides blame each other for the spike in hostilities, the worst in months.

The outpost was the scene of violent clashes between settlers and police on 1 February 2006, 11 years ago to the day.

Taking the west side could prove much tougher; the jihadists are expected to put up a fierce fight as they are cornered in a shrinking area.

A car bomb was rammed into the gate of the Dayah hotel in Mogadishu, leaving 28 dead and scores injured.

More than 65,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled to Bangladesh from Myanmar since October after the Burmese army launched a crackdown in Rakhine State.

Abdulgadir Masharipov has been accused of killing 39 people at Istanbul's Reina nightclub on New Year's Day.

Many civilians are thought to be amongst the dead in rebel-held Azaz on the border with Turkey

Photos show Duterte handling machine guns in the 1980s and 1990s. He has brought the iron-fist approach he used to rule Davao to Manila.

Mourners and well-wishers have been laying flowers, lighting candles and leaving tributes to the victims at the site.

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Thousands of civilians and rebel fighters have left Aleppo in convoys of buses and ambulances in the past 24 hours.

Thousands of civilians are still believed to be holed up in a 'hellish corner' of less than a square kilometre of the opposition-held area.

The 11th century minaret at the mosque was destroyed three years ago and sections of the medieval souk were burned down.

Dozens of women and children – some of them migrants from sub-Saharan Africa held captive by Isis – escaped or were released from militant-held territory.

The IDF's Desert Reconnaissance Battalion makes use of Bedouin soldiers' tracking skills.

The cloudy skies act in favour for the militants as they hinder air strikes and blur the vision of Iraqi forces.

The UN is preparing for a worst-case scenario in which more than a million people are made homeless and food shortages set in.

Government officials say they want to 'liberate' area, calling the opposition fighters 'terrorists' and accusing them of holding civilians hostage.

Relatives hold hands and try to embrace through the wire fence around the camp, lifting up new babies so that their families can meet them.

Many residents have chosen to stay in Mosul, preferring the risk of crossfire to spending the winter in a cold displacement camp.

Syrian government forces and their allies say they have taken control of nearly half of the rebel-held areas of Aleppo.

Many among the Buddhist majority in Myanmar view its 1.1 million Rohingya as illegal immigrants from Bangladesh.

Children with blackened faces play in and around puddles of thick crude oil gushing from the breached wells.

The coast guard ship Diciotti and the Topaz, a ship run by humanitarian group Migrant Offshore Aid Station, are part of the effort.