Middle East
U.N. warns purely military response in Syria could fuel extremism
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon warned on Tuesday that a solely military response to the threat of Islamic State in Syria could fuel the radicalization...
Taliban blast in Kabul kills four Afghan soldiers
At least four Afghan soldiers have been killed in a roadside bomb attack on a bus in the capital.
As Saudi Arabia steps up beheadings, some see a political message
A sudden surge in public executions in Saudi Arabia in the last two months has coincided with a U.S.-led bombing campaign against Islamic State.
Turkey U-turn as Iraqi Kurds granted access to beseiged town of Kobane
Turkey has given permission for Iraqi Kurdish fighters to reinforce fellow Kurds in the Syrian town of Kobane in a major policy change on Monday.
US airdrops weapons and supplies for Kurds fighting IS near Kobani
The U.S. airdropped weapons and supplies for Kurdish forces fighting Islamic State (IS) in the town of Kobani in Syria on Monday.
Iran has banned its top human rights lawyer from practicing law
An Iranian court has banned Nasrin Sotoudeh, an award-winning human rights lawyer, from practicing her profession for three years, a year after having...
Jihadists take heavy losses in battle for Syria’s Kobane
The Islamic State group was taking heavy losses in the Syrian battleground of Kobane on Sunday as Iraqi forces fought the jihadists buoyed by U.S.
Iraq PM to visit Iran for talks on fight against IS
Iraqi Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi is to visit Iran on Monday for talks on Baghdad’s battle against the Islamic State group (IS), which holds swathes...
U.S.-led coalition slams new IS targets in Syria, Iraq
U.S. war planes struck more than two dozen times in Syria and Iraq on Friday and Saturday, hitting Islamic State jihadists and oil infrastructure they...
Dozens dead in Yemen as advancing Shiite rebels fight Sunnis
Shiite rebels sweeping across Yemen met deadly resistance from both Sunni tribesmen and Al-Qaeda Saturday as they pushed south into mainly Sunni areas...
Dubai police slam fast food chain for ‘drink and drive’ Facebook post
When someone says you shouldn’t “drink and drive,” do you take that to mean you shouldn’t drive drunk, or that you actually shouldn’t...
U.S. makes held talks with Syrian Kurdish group, could fuel tension with Turkey
The United States has held direct talks for the first time with a key Syrian Kurdish group, whose troops have been battling the Islamic State group, the...
Multiple bomb attacks in and around Baghdad leave 47 dead
Bombings and a mortar strike in Shi’ite Muslim parts of Baghdad and in the rural belt south of the capital killed at least 47 people on Thursday...
US, coalition continue numerous strikes on IS in operation ‘Inherent Resolve’
US aircrafts carried out 18 strikes on Islamic State positions near the besieged Syrian border town of Kobani and five strikes against the group in Iraq...
Islamic State ‘retreating’ in key Syria town of Kobane as airstrikes continue
Islamic State (IS) militants are retreating in parts of the strategic Syrian town of Kobane, a Kurdish official has said.
Syrian Kurds press hundreds of young men into army
Police in Syria’s beleaguered self-ruled Kurdish areas have rounded up hundreds of young men to press them into military service recently made compulsory,...
21 airstrikes slow IS progress in Kobani; Turkey takes surprising action
U.S.-led aircraft hammered Islamic State jihadists with 21 bombing raids near Kobani on Monday and Tuesday amid signs the strikes had “slowed”...
Terrorism ruled out in shooting of 2 Americans in Saudi capital
The gunman who shot and killed an American and wounded another in Riyadh was a disgruntled former employee of defense contractor Vinnell Arabia and a U.S.-Saudi...
IS wises up: Top U.S. general says fighters are savvier, more evasive
As the U.S. and its allies enters the third month of a bombing campaign in Iraq and Syria, a top U.S.
Fear reigns in Iraq capital as Baghdad residents watch IS take nearby cities
On the western edge of Iraq’s capital, Islamic State group militants battle government forces and exchange mortar fire, only adding to the sense...
Islamic State justifies slavery of Yazidi ‘idolators’ on religious grounds
The Islamic State group said it enslaved families from the minority Yazidi sect after overrunning their villages in northwestern Iraq, in what it praised...
'A war without witnesses': Journalists lament news 'black holes' in IS territory
Kidnappings, beheadings, a hatred of journalists: War correspondents are avoiding the areas controlled by the Islamic State.
Egypt police storm universities over anti-government protests
Police backed by armoured vehicles have stormed the campuses of at least two prominent Egyptian universities to quell anti-government protests by students,...
US pledges $212 million for the rebuilding of Gaza
The United States has promised $212 million in immediate assistance to the devastated Gaza Strip, but urges Palestinians and Israelis to return to peace...
Triple suicide bombing in Iraq kills 26 Kurds
A triple suicide bombing killed 26 Kurdish security forces northeast of Baghdad on Sunday and a roadside bomb killed the police chief of the western Anbar...
Gaza donors meet as U.S. pushes peace talks revival
Top envoys gather in Cairo Sunday for a conference aimed at raising billions of dollars to rebuild war-battered Gaza, as Washington urges Israel and the...
Bombings kill 45 in Shi’ite areas of Baghdad and outskirts; Iraq on high alert
At least 45 people were killed in bombings in Baghdad and its rural outskirts on Saturday as the government continued to defend the capital against jihadists...
Kurds struggle to defend besieged Syrian town
Kurdish militiamen are putting up a fierce fight to defend a Syrian town near the border with Turkey but are struggling to repel advances by the Islamic...
UN fears massacre, asks Turkey to intervene as IS takes ground in Kobane
Jihadists captured the headquarters of Kurdish fighters defending the battleground Syrian town of Kobane Friday as a UN envoy warned of a looming “massacre”...
Two years after kidnapping in Pakistan, German aid worker released in Kabul
A German aid worker who was kidnapped in Pakistan more than two years ago has been freed in Afghanistan, the German government and his employer said Friday.
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