Attacks by Iranian-armed militias on Iraqi bases hosting US-led forces are heading towards a red line. If it is crossed, the coalition would respond with such force that "no one would like the outcome", a senior US official warned this week.
Normally, polling day is drab and uneventful. The excitement doesn't begin until the release of the exit poll at 10pm. This time, though, things felt somehow different. Vaguely unreal. Something strange was in the air.
A 16-year-old who shot and killed six people in Baghdad's mass protests has been killed by an angry mob, with the teen's corpse being strung up by the feet from a traffic light.
At night in a remote region of western Mongolia, Donald Trump Jr used a rifle with a laser sight to shoot and kill an endangered argali, the largest living sheep.
The US House of Representatives was expected to take its most concrete step yet in impeaching Donald Trump last night, with a committee clearing the way for a full House vote on charges accusing the president of high crimes and misdemeanours.
The roots of religion and spirituality may have begun on a small Indonesian island, not Europe, the oldest cave paintings in the world suggest.
Russia has said it has been left "baffled" by plans by a district of Prague to build a memorial to a Russian army that sided with the Nazis during the war.
