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October 17, 2016

Iraqi forces poised to launch operation to retake Mosul

Iraqi forces appear poised to launch their most complex anti-IS operation to date: retaking the country's second-largest city of Mosul.

October 17, 2016

Iraqi forces launch military push to drive IS from Mosul

Iraqi government and Kurdish forces, backed by U.S.-led coalition air and ground support, launched coordinated military operations early on Monday as the long-awaited fight to wrest the northern city of Mosul from Islamic State fighters got underway.

October 17, 2016

Mauritanian Guantanamo prisoner who published diary set free

A Mauritanian official says a former al-Qaida militant who gained fame with the publication of a diary about life at the U.S. detention center in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, has arrived in his country after nearly 14 years of detention.

October 17, 2016

Iraq launches Mosul offensive, but bombs slow progress

Iraqi and Kurdish forces launched a long-awaited offensive Monday to drive the Islamic State group out of the country's second largest city, Mosul, but the operation could take weeks, if not months, and many fear a humanitarian crisis.

October 17, 2016

Experts meet in Ecuador to dream up the city of the future

Thousands of experts and leaders from around the world are gathering in South America to dream up the city of the future even as the continent struggles with urban planning issues such as slums that have dogged the continent for decades.

October 17, 2016

Puerto Rico officials probe fatal fall of zip line operator

Authorities in Puerto Rico say a zip line operator has died after falling nearly 700 feet (213 meters) from a platform while helping a customer.

October 17, 2016

Deceased Thai king to remain a future father figure

For Thailand's royalists — and there are millions of them — King Bhumibol Adulyadej will probably long remain embedded as a potent, father-like figure who guided them through turbulent decades and espoused ideals of national harmony, labor on behalf of the poor and the virtues of an agrarian society vanishing in the wake of headlong modernization.

October 17, 2016

Pope canonizes Argentina's 'gaucho priest' and 6 others

Pope Francis has canonized Argentina's "gaucho priest," the poncho-wearing, mate-sipping pastor who rode his mule Malacara to the far-flung Argentine peripheries to minister to the poor.

October 17, 2016

Philippine president's China trip puts US ties to the test

After lashing out at longtime ally America, the new Philippine president is making a state visit to China in a charm offensive that will help define how far he wants to shift allegiance from treaty ally the U.S. to an Asian superpower locked in a territorial standoff with his small, impoverished country.

October 17, 2016

North Korea says it wants UK to pull out of military drills

North Korea said Monday that it wants Britain to pull out of upcoming military exercises in South Korea, calling the drills a "hostile act." Britain has announced that it will send fighter jets and support planes to Asia, and that it will take part in exercises in South Korea together with South Korean and U.S. forces in early November.