SULAIMANIYAH, Iraq (AP) – Surkaw Omar and Rebien Abdullah quit their jobs and spent their life savings to migrate to Europe, only to find crowded asylum camps, hunger and freezing weather. Now back home in northern Iraq, they describe their quest for a better life as a disaster. They each …

BAGHDAD (AP) – Iraqi officials said on Monday that the death toll from Sunday’s suicide truck bombing south of Baghdad climbed to 61. Among the dead were 52 civilians, while the rest were members of the security forces, a police officer said. Another 95 people were injured in the attack …

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) – North Korea on Monday issued its latest belligerent threat, warning of an indiscriminate “pre-emptive nuclear strike of justice” on Washington and Seoul, this time in reaction to the start of huge U.S.-South Korean military drills. Such threats have been a staple of young North Korean …