A Saudi Arabian-led coalition resumed air strikes against Yemen's Houthi militia in Aden overnight, hours after the expiry of a truce meant to facilitate badly needed humanitarian aid, a Reuters eyewitness said.

Islamic State militants said they had taken full control of the western Iraqi city of Ramadi on May 17 in the biggest defeat for the Baghdad government since last summer.

Nine people were killed on May 17 when a simmering feud among rival biker gangs boiled over at a sports bar in Waco, Texas, resulting in gunfire and a full-blown battle in the parking lot, police said.

China's ties with the United States remain stable, Chinese President Xi Jinping said on May 17, as he sought to defuse tension over a territorial dispute in the East Sea that has raised fears of confrontation between them.

A US drone strike in northwestern Pakistan's Shawal region killed at least four militants on May 16, officials said.

American special operations forces killed a senior Islamic State leader in a raid in Syria, US officials said on May 16.

(VOV) -Iran is prepared for "all scenarios" in talks with world powers about curbing its nuclear programme in exchange for sanctions relief, its top nuclear negotiator said on May 15 when asked what would happen if no final deal was reached by July.

The wreckage of a US military helicopter lost on an earthquake relief mission in Nepal was found on May 15 high on a mountainside, with all eight on board presumed dead, US officials said.

Malaysia has detained more than a thousand Bangladeshi and Rohingya refugees, including dozens of children, police said, a day after authorities rescued hundreds stranded off Indonesia's western tip.

The U.S. Marine Corps is bringing together foreign commanders from amphibious forces deployed mostly in the Asia-Pacific for a conference aimed at taking steps to integrate operations, with China excluded from the event, according to officials and planning documents.