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Strategies to rescue migrants in the Mediterranean Sea and disrupt smuggling networks have had deadly, unexpected consequences, according to aid groups monitoring the crisis.

A visual guide to the London Bridge attacks

Islamic State militants have shifted to insurgent tactics as they lose territory in Iraq.

The number of civilians killed in American-led airstrikes in Iraq and Syria spiked this year, as efforts to retake Islamic State strongholds intensified and as some procedures for approving airstrikes were changed.

The sun hasn’t cracked the horizon when Alfredo Betancourt and 19 of his countrymen line up behind a packing trailer, knives in hand, knee deep in dewy cauliflower plants.

Syria’s civil war began seven years ago with protests against President Bashar al-Assad’s government. It has since dragged in global and regional powers. Fractured into areas held by rival forces, the country continues to endure through war.