BAGHDAD / AFP Iraqi officials say clashes between government forces and the IS group outside the city of Fallujah have briefly subsided. The Iraqi troops are engaged in the second day of a large-scale military operation to drive the militants out from their stronghold west of Baghdad. In nearby Garma, Mayor Ahmed Al Halbosi says engineering teams are clearing ...

  Tripoli / AFP Libyan coastguards said they detained 550 people trying to reach Europe illegally by boat on Tuesday, the second time in three days they have intercepted migrants in the same area. “Coastguards in the west who were patrolling off the Zawiya refinery on Tuesday intercepted four large inflatables carrying around 550 illegal migrants,” navy spokesman Colonel Ayoub ...

  Sanaa / AFP A bomb hit a university campus in the rebel-held Yemeni capital Sanaa killing two people at an event commemorating the country’s 1990 unification, a security official said. Several people were also seriously wounded, the official said, adding that death toll was likely to rise. The event was organised by the Houthi Shiite rebels who have controlled ...