Three Americans were killed when Al-Shabaab fighters stormed a Kenyan air base used by the US military in Lamu county on Sunday in a particularly brazen attack on Kenyan soil by the al-Qaeda-linked Somali terrorist group. US Africa Command said that a US service member and two

President Trump has threatened severe sanctions against Iraq after its parliament called on US troops to leave the country. "We have a very extraordinarily expensive air base that's there. It cost billions of dollars to build. We're not leaving unless they pay us back for it,"

Thousands of mourners swept into the Iranian city of Ahvaz early on Sunday morning to receive the remains of Qasem Soleimani, the general killed in a US drone strike in Baghdad last week. The mourners beat their chests and chanted "death to America". Soleimani was the architect of

The body of Iranian General Qassem Soleimani, who was killed in a U.S. drone strike late on Thursday night, arrived in the city of Ahvaz in southwestern Iran, state television reported. Live images from Ahvaz on state TV news showed thousands of mourners pouring into the city to attend

Strong winds that have changed direction are hampering efforts by firefighters to contain bushfires in Australia's south-east. A southerly change with powerful gusts up to 80mph (128km/h) threatened to spread huge fires raging in New South Wales (NSW), officials said. In the

A group claiming to be hackers from Iran have breached the website of a little-known US government agency and posted messages vowing revenge for Washington’s killing of top military commander Qassem Suleimani. The website of the Federal Depository Library Program was replaced on

President Trump has warned the US is "targeting" 52 Iranian sites and will strike "very fast and very hard" if Tehran attacks Americans or US assets. His comments followed the US assassination of Qasem Soleimani, a top Iranian general, in a drone strike. Iran has vowed to avenge his

China has sacked the official in charge of relations with Hong Kong, Chinese state media reports. Wang Zhimin was director of Beijing's liaison office for the territory. The Xinhua news agency said Mr Wang had been replaced by Luo Huining, the Communist Party secretary for the

A huge crowd in Iraq's capital Baghdad is taking part in a funeral procession for the Iranian military commander Qasem Soleimani, who was killed in a US airstrike on Thursday. Soleimani was the architect of Iran's Middle East operations and Iran vowed to take "severe revenge"

Greta Thunberg has changed her name to Sharon on Twitter, in honour of a game show contestant who appeared to have no idea who she was. While appearing on BBC's Celebrity Mastermind, actor Amanda Henderson was asked to name the teenage climate activist. Looking stumped,

President Donald Trump said the US killed Iran's top military commander Qasem Soleimani "to stop a war, not to start one". Mr Trump said Soleimani's "reign of terror" was "over" following a strike at Iraq's Baghdad airport on Friday. Soleimani spearheaded Iran's

UNITED NATIONS: UN secretary-general Antonio Guterres on Friday cautioned that the world cannot afford another war in the Gulf, following the killing of Iran's top military commander Qassim Suleimani in a US drone strike. Voicing deep concern over escalation of tensions in the

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has announced 3,000 reserve troops will be deployed to help tackle raging bushfires across the country. Defence Minister Linda Reynolds said this is the first time this has happened in Australia's history. Temperatures have surpassed 40C

Six members of the Popular Mobilization Forces, an official Iraqi militia organization with ties to Iran, were killed in another U.S. drone strike in northern Baghdad on Friday, multiple officials told Newsweek. The strike comes one day after President Donald Trump approved an operation

A spectacular drone display in Shanghai to mark the start of the new year did not actually happen at New Year, it has emerged. The display of thousands of drones flying in formation over the city was widely covered by global media. But people who were at the event on New Year's

The Australian navy is evacuating people trapped in the fire-ravaged town of Mallacoota on the Victoria coast. Two ships, HMAS Choules and MV Sycamore, will pick up about 1,000 people, MP Darren Chester said. By early afternoon on Friday, the first 56 people had boarded - at the

General Qasem Soleimani, the head of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards' elite Quds Force, has been killed by US forces in Iraq. The Pentagon confirmed he was killed "at the direction of the president". It comes after reports of a strike at Baghdad's international airport,

Taiwan's top military official is among eight people killed when a military helicopter made an emergency landing in mountainous terrain, officials say. General Shen Yi-ming and 12 others were on the Black Hawk helicopter when it was forced to land in poor weather near the capital,

At least 21 people have died in flooding in the Indonesian capital, Jakarta, after the city had its most intense rainfall for at least 24 years. The Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) measured 377 millimetres of rainfall in a day at an airport in East Jakarta.

The premier of the Australian state of New South Wales has declared a week-long state of emergency in response to the escalating bushfire threat. High temperatures and strong winds are forecast for the weekend, leading to "widespread extreme fire danger" in the eastern Australian