Baghdad / AFP Sunni Arab tribesmen battled militants of the IS group in their Fallujah stronghold for a second day on Saturday in a major blow to the extremists in Iraq, officials said. Fallujah is one of two Iraqi cities still controlled by IS, but residents—said to number in the tens of thousands—vastly outnumber the estimated 300 to 400 extremists ...

United Nations / AP The head of an international group monitoring South Sudan’s peace process said he will propose security arrangements to spur the return of rebel leader Riek Machar as vice president, a critical step to launching a national unity government that must urgently tackle escalating violence and the country’s “humanitarian catastrophe.” Festus Mogae told the UN Security Council ...

kiev / AFP Ukrainians on Saturday sombrely marked the second anniversary of the bloody revolution that ousted Russian-backed president Viktor Yanukovych, as a fresh political crisis left many disillusioned with the current leadership. President Petro Poroshenko and his wife came early in the morning to light icon lamps at a memorial cross for the more than 100 people killed in ...