A helicopter conducting a mountain rescue exercise crashed with nine local officials aboard in Japan on Sunday and at least three people are feared dead, officials and media reports said. A police helicopter located the crashed helicopter on a snowy mountainside in Nagano prefecture in central Japan, public broadcaster NHK ...
Iraqi security forces attacked four ISIL-held neighborhoods in west Mosul on Sunday, including one that houses provincial government offices, the military said. Iraqi forces launched a major operation to recapture west Mosul, the largest population centre still held by the ISIL group, on February 19, pushing into the area from ...