The CIA's release of documents seized during the 2011 raid that killed al Qaida leader Osama bin Laden has again raised questions about Iran's support of the extremist network leading up to the September 11 terror attacks.

US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has said that China has threatened to impose sanctions on North Korea if it conducts further nuclear tests.

Three al-Qaida militants were killed in a suspected US drone strike in southern Yemen, Yemeni security officials said today, the fourth such attack this week.

Iraqi police today reported they had found the bodies of at least 65 men killed by gunshots, most bound hand and foot, in a gruesome wave of apparent sectarian killing over the past 24 hours in some of Baghdad’s most dangerous neighbourhoods.