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Iraq investigates claim of civilian deaths as Mosul battle continues

A displaced Iraqi woman carries her child at Hammam Al-Alil camp, as Iraqi forces battle with Daesh militants in Mosul, Iraq. — Reuters

Women as breadwinners

An Iraqi man serves tea at a cafe in the Hamam Al-Alil area, south of Mosul, on Saturday, following its liberation by Iraqi forces during an offensive to retake the western parts of Mosul from the militants. — AFP

Fear and hunger in Iraq’s west Mosul

Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif listens to a reporter during a press conference in Ankara, Turkey, in this Feb. 23, 2017 file photo. — AP

Sharif seeks help from religious scholars in war against militants

Discarded veils at the entrance of a screening center south of Mosul where civilians fleeing Daesh-held neighborhoods are gathered before being moved to camps, on the western side of Mosul. — AP

Surviving on frontline in Mosul street battles

Displaced Iraqis help each other to get onto a truck to be carried to a safe place, as Iraqi forces battle with Daesh militants, in western Mosul, Wednesday — AFP

Daesh-terrified families huddle at Mosul homes

An Iraqi soldier prepare artillery at Iraqi Army base during fighting between Iraqi security forces and Daesh militants on the western side of Mosul. — AP

Commandos recapture new neighborhood in Mosul

Displaced Iraqis flee their homes due to fighting between Iraqi special forces and Daesh militants, on the western side of Mosul, Iraq, Saturday. — AP

Iraqi forces push deeper into western Mosul as civilians flee

A soldier stands guard at the site of a blast at the courthouse in Charsadda, Pakistan, on Tuesday. — Reuters

Pakistan to send paramilitaries to fight militants in Punjab province

A general view shows a street in the town of Bashiqa, some 20 km north east of Mosul. Residents who fled the town of Bashiqa following the arrival of Daesh are slowly returning to their home-town after Kurdish Pershmerga forces drove out the extremists in November. — AFP

Iraqis risk all to spy on Daesh militants in Mosul

Lack of toilet and water shortage in Nigerian camps puts people in danger due to the rise of diseases that stems from relieving oneself in open. — Courtesy photo

Nigeria’s crowded camps fuel disease fears from open defecation

Lyari UnderGround (L.U.G) rappers, Danger, Abood, Killa, Slipknot Denna, and Anxiously, pose for a camera during an interview with Reuters in Karachi, Pakistan February 1, 2017. Picture taken February 1, 2017.REUTERS

Home-grown streaming app helps Pakistan's musicians find voice

King Abdullah of Jordan

Jordan’s Abdullah to press Trump administration to step up war on militants

The damaged ceiling of a rest house in Al-Harazat district as two terror suspects blew themselves up.

Jeddah terror bids foiled

Park Chul-hong, skipper of the South Korea-registered carrier DongBang Giant 2, is greeted by former Sulu governor Abdusakur Tan after he was freed by militants of the Abu Sayyaf group, at Jolo airport in Sulu, southern Philippines, on Saturday. — Reuters

Philippine militants free S. Korean after 3 months of captivity

People demonstrate outside the Tunisian parliament in Tunis on Saturday against the return of Tunisian militants who have fought abroad. — AP

Tunisians protest against return of militants

A woman mourns as she assesses the scene of the wreckage of cars burned after a fireball from an oil tanker engulfed several vehicles and killed several people, near the Rift Valley town of Naivasha, west of Nairobi, on Sunday. — Reuters

A sad Sunday for Africa as scores die in blast, tanker crash, church collapse

Military troops scour the site of a roadside blast in the village of Matampay in Marawi City, Southern Mindanao, in this Nov. 29, 2016 file photo. — AFP

3 Filipino soldiers dead, 17 wounded in clash with militants

Citizens Against Weapons (CAW) group volunteers carry signs during a campaign ‘Walk a cause’ demanding to de-weaponize the city, in Karachi, Pakistan, on Sunday. — Reuters

Militants kidnap six Pakistanis working for Polish oil firm

Philippine troops fire their 105mm howitzer cannons towards enemy positions from their base near Butig town in Lanao del Sur province on the southern island of Mindanao on Sunday. — AFP

Troops fire artillery at Daesh militants in south Philippines