Middle East
Explosion at key Iran military site: Sabotage?
A spectacular explosion took place on Sunday night outside Tehran in the Parchin military base, where Iran produces crucial elements of its missiles and...
U.S. officials say fresh air strikes stall IS takeover of Kobane
The U.S. military’s Central Command reported another nine bombing raids near Kobane, stating that IS had been pushed back towards the edge of the...
Suicide bomber kills 42 at Shi’ite rally in Yemeni capital Sana’a
At least 42 people were killed on Thursday when a suicide bomber detonated an explosive belt in a district of the Yemeni capital Sana’a where supporters...
United States steps up air strikes on IS in Syria as Turkish Kurds riot
U.S.-led coalition warplanes have intensified bombing raids to push back Islamic State (IS) forces intent on seizing the Kurdish town of Kobane in Syria,...
Afghanistan hangs five men over gang rape
Afghanistan hanged five men on Wednesday over a gang rape that had shocked the country, officials said, despite requests from human rights groups for new...
France backs Turkey-Syria ‘buffer zone’ as anti-IS airstrikes continue
France said on Wednesday it supported the idea of setting up a buffer zone between Turkey and Syria to create a safe haven for displaced people, President...
Twelve protesters dead amid claims Turkey ‘isn’t doing enough in ISIS fight’
At least 12 people have been killed during pro-Kurdish demonstrations in Turkey amid claims the country is not doing enough in the fight against Islamic...
U.S.-led air strikes keep IS at bay in Kobane as refugees stream into Turkey
The U.S.-led coalition has carried out its most sustained air attacks so far on Islamic State (IS) fighters attacking the Turkey-Syria border town of Kobane,...
Kurdish woman suicide bomber attacks IS militants in Syria: monitor
A female Kurdish fighter carried out a suicide bomb attack against jihadists from the Islamic State group outside the embattled Syrian border town of Kobane...
ISIL fighters shell Syrian Kurdish town
ISIL militants shelled a beleaguered Syrian Kurdish town near the Turkish border on Sunday, sending pillars of smoke billowing into the sky as Kurdish...
Jihadists pound key Syrian town after beheading Briton
Kurdish fighters supported by US-led air strikes held back Islamic State militants attacking the Syrian border town of Kobane on Saturday, amid an international...
IS claims murder of British hostage in latest video
An Internet video released Friday purports to show an Islamic State group fighter beheading British hostage Alan Henning and threatening yet another American...
British Prime Minister: UK ‘has paid a heavy price’ in Afghanistan
David Cameron said Britain “paid a heavy price” to secure stability in Afghanistan as he made an unannounced visit to Kabul on Friday.
Dozens of troops killed in attacks at Libya’s Benghazi airport
Dozens of soldiers were killed and more than 70 wounded in car bomb attacks and clashes between troops and Islamists around Benghazi airport, a Libyan...
Muslim pilgrims in mass movement as hajj begins in Mecca
Muslim pilgrims from around the world are arriving at Mount Arafat in western Saudi Arabia for the annual hajj pilgrimage, the spiritual peak of their...
Egypt seizes newspapers to censor one article
Egyptian authorities on Wednesday confiscated all the copies of one of the country’s largest private newspapers in order to censor an article, just days...
Schoolchildren targeted in Syrian bomb attack in Homs; at least 10 dead
Twin bombings near an elementary school in Syria killed at least 32 people on Wednesday, including at least 10 children, with the second blast going off...
700-year-old tomb may play role in Turkey’s fight against Islamic State
A vow to defend the 700-year-old tomb of Suleyman Shah, grandfather of the founder of the Ottoman Empire, in a Turkish enclave in northern Syria could...
Kurds gain ground in Iraq as Britain joins fray
Kurdish fighters in northern Iraq captured a border crossing with Syria on Tuesday, expelling Islamic State (IS) militants in heavy fighting that ground...
Turkey’s parliament to decide on joining anti-IS coalition
Turkey’s parliament will on Thursday debate motions for Turkey joining the international coalition battling the islamic State in the Middle East.
Afghan president sworn in, paving way for U.S. troops past 2014
Ashraf Ghani’s government will sign a long-delayed deal on Tuesday to allow some U.S.
Netanyahu: Iran poses greater threat than Islamic State
Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday tried to shift the spotlight away from the Islamic State militant group and back to Iran, warning...
'State of Superstition': Iraq sitcom mocks IS to 'remove the phobia'
As Iraqi forces struggle to pin back the Islamic State group on the ground, Baghdad is taking its war against the jihadists to the airwaves with a television...
Historic, anxious handover as Afghanistan swears in new leader
Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai was sworn in Monday as Afghanistan’s new president, replacing Hamid Karzai in the country’s first democratic transfer...
Israel’s Netanyahu says he will refute ‘Gaza lies’ in UN speech
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu left Israel on Sunday en route to the United Nations in New York, saying he will refute “all of the lies...
Calling Syria airstrikes an ‘attack on Islam’, terrorists vow vengeance on West
The al Qaeda-linked Nusra Front on Saturday denounced U.S.-led air strikes on Syria, saying they amounted to a war against Islam and vowing to retaliate...
Amid airstrikes, IS intensifies fight for key town on Turkish border
Despite fresh U.S.-led air strikes and now British warplanes over head, Islamic State (IS) fighters continued their assault on the strategic Syrian town...
ISIL pushes into Syrian town despite US raids
Fighters from the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) have continued to advance into the Syrian Kurdish dominated town of Kobane, despite the US-led...
Murder verdict postponed for Egypt’s former President Hosni Mubarak
In the latest twist in the legal battle surrounding the ousted autocrat, an Egyptian court on Saturday postponed its verdict in the murder retrial of former...
Egypt’s Mubarak to face murder retrial verdict
An Egyptian court will rule Saturday in the murder retrial of former president Hosni Mubarak, whose 2011 overthrow unleashed almost four years of turmoil...
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