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IS advances on strategic town in northeast Syria, destroy ruins in Iraq
Islamic State group jihadists launched a fierce assault Saturday in a bid to gain control of a strategic town in Syria’s northeastern Hasakeh province,...
Islamic State ‘issues death threats’ against Twitter co-founder and employees
Twitter Inc. and law enforcement authorities are investigating alleged threats made by Islamic State militants against the social media network’s...
Iraqi Kurdish troops battling IS retake key Sinjar corridor
Iraqi Kurdish forces on Wednesday launched a broad offensive backed by mass bombing from U.S.-led coalition warplanes to retake the northeastern Sinjar...
Analysis: New focus on how Pakistan will address militancy
Many wonder if the attack that killed 148 people at a Pakistani school will be a watershed in the country’s long, conflicted history with Islamic...
EU seeking Turkish support in Russia sanctions, ISIS fight
The European Union will press Turkey to cooperate more closely in the fight against Islamic State (IS) and urge it not to undermine EU sanctions on Russia...
Assad: U.S.-led airstrikes having little impact on Islamic State
Syrian President Bashar Assad said in remarks published Wednesday that U.S.-led airstrikes targeting Islamic State group militants in his country are neither...
Iran jets carried out airstrikes in Iraq, says United States
Iranian fighter jets bombed Islamic State jihadists in eastern Iraq in recent days, but the strikes were not coordinated with US forces, the Pentagon said...
Blow to IS group as ‘50 jihadists killed in Kobani in past 24 hours’
At least 50 Islamic State group jihadists have been killed in the past 24 hours in clashes, suicide bombings and US-led air strikes in Syria’s Kobani,...
Landmark Tunisian presidential election seen heading for run-off
Tunisians voted on Sunday to pick their first directly elected president, with the two major parties expecting a run-off as the final step in the North...
Ferguson on edge: Tensions rise as city, country wait for answers
Nearly a week after Missouri governor Jay Nixon declared a state of emergency ahead of a decision in the contentious Ferguson police shooting, reports...
Extremist who burned passport in ISIS video grew up in small French village
One of three Kalashnikov-wielding Islamists seen burning their French passports on an Islamic State-made propaganda video this week grew up in a small...
Tunisians head to polls to elect first new president since revolution
Tunisians are going to the polls Sunday in their first presidential election since the 2011 revolution that sparked the Arab Spring, a ballot set to round...
Egypt signals parliamentary elections will be held by March 2015
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi told visiting U.S. businessmen on Tuesday that a parliamentary election will be held by March 2015, trying to reassure...
Google Glass may obstruct peripheral vision, dangerous for drivers
People wearing Google Glass may experience significant blind spots on their right side, which could interfere with tasks such as driving, crossing the...
In mass killings, a bloodthirst for U.S. allies in Iraq and Syria
Western Iraq saw more brutal bloodshed this weekend after the Islamic State massacred 322 people of the Albu Nimr tribe, a Sunni group, including women...
Fruits of the Arab Spring: Tunisia elections proclaimed as “free”
Foreign observers praised Tunisia’s “free” elections ahead of the release of results Wednesday, after the Islamists conceded defeat in...
Secular party upbeat as Tunisia awaits ‘milestone’ election results
Tunisia’s main secular party was in a confident mood Monday with vote counting underway following a general election seen as critical for democracy...
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.
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...
New York scientists unveil ‘invisibility cloak’ to rival Harry Potter’s
Watch out Harry Potter, you are not the only wizard with an invisibility cloak. Scientists at the University of Rochester have discovered a way to hide...
Obama to reveal IS strategy: ‘This is not the equivalent of the Iraq war’
U.S. President Barack Obama says the threat posed by the Islamic militant group in Iraq and Syria is “serious,” but the administration’s...
#BurnISISFlagChallenge goes viral in the Arab world
A social media viral campaign has sprung up in the Arab world that involves burning the flag of the self-proclaimed Islamic State (IS) - also known as...
27,000 pro-IS twitter accounts set up in aftermath of beheading
A Sky News investigation has found that almost 30,000 Twitter accounts have been set up by Islamic State (IS) sympathisers since the social network site...
Intel report: Three Malaysians join Mid East jihadists as comfort women
Malaysian women are believed to have joined the ISIL forces to offer Jihad Al-Nikah or sexual jihad, senior intelligence officials told The Malaysian Insider.
ISIL demands $6.6m ransom, prisoner release for U.S. female hostage
A third American hostage held by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) has been identified as a 26-year-old American woman who was kidnapped...
For jihadists, social media a platform to recruit, spread fear
Jihadist groups have long used their own media organizations to distribute messages and videos, but in recent years, platforms like Twitter have given...
Obama’s angered statement raises questions about second journalist’s fate
U.S. President Barack Obama on Wednesday declared himself “heartbroken” by the beheading of American journalist Jim Foley by ISIL extremists, but he...
Cameron warns IS militants could take terror fight ‘on to streets of Britain’
David Cameron has warned that if the Islamic State’s onslaught continues Europe will be facing a “poisonous” terrorist state on the shores...
ISIL could pose threat to U.S., Europe, officials say
U.S. counterterrorism officials have dramatically ramped up their warnings about the threat posed by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), concluding...
U.S. airstrikes in Iraq destroy ISIL arms and equipment
President Barack Obama said Saturday that airstrikes he ordered in northern Iraq have destroyed arms and equipment held by Islamic State of Iraq and the...
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