Middle East
Interpol: Islamic State group gains support in Africa, Asia
A growing number of extremist groups from Africa to Southeast Asia are shifting their allegiance to the Islamic State group, leading to greater risks for...
IS claims suicide bombing on Shiite mosque in Saudi, 4 dead
A suicide bomber disguised as a woman blew himself up in the parking lot of a Shiite mosque during Friday prayers, killing four people in the second such...
At least ten killed in car bombs at two Baghdad hotels
Car bombs at two hotels in Baghdad, the Iraqi capital, have killed at least 10 people, with dozens more wounded.
Qaeda-led rebels take Idlib’s last Syria regime bastion
The Syrian army has pulled back from the northwestern city of Ariha after a coalition of insurgent groups seized the last city in Idlib province in northwestern...
Saudi-led assault kills about 100 in deadliest bombings of Yemen war
Saudi-led air strikes killed about 100 people near Yemen’s border with Saudi Arabia and in the capital Sanaa on Wednesday, residents said, the deadliest...
Israel strikes Gaza after rocket lands near Israeli port of Ashdod
Israeli warplanes early on Wednesday launched missile strikes on military training facilities in the Gaza Strip in response to earlier firing of four rockets...
Police say one rocket is fired from Gaza Strip at Israel
A rocket fired from the Gaza Strip landed near the Israeli port city of Ashdod on Tuesday but no casualties or damage were reported, police and the military...
Behind closed doors: Washington Post reporter’s spy trial opens in Iran
A Washington Post journalist has gone on trial for spying in Iran, the country’s ISNA news agency has said.
Syria warplanes batter extremists in ancient Palmyra
Syrian government aircraft carried out intense strikes Monday against the Islamic State group in and around the ancient city of Palmyra after its fall...
Ex-Israeli PM Olmert sentenced to 8 months in prison
Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert was sentenced Monday to eight months in prison for unlawfully accepting money from a U.S.
Syria says Islamic State kills hundreds, including children, in Palmyra
Islamic State fighters have killed at least 400 people, including women and children, in Palmyra since capturing the ancient Syrian city four days ago,...
Iraq claws back land from IS near Ramadi
Iraqi forces retook territory from the Islamic State group east of Ramadi Saturday, commanders said, in their first counterattack since the jihadists’...
Thousands fleeing Islamic State are ‘barred from Baghdad’
Following the takeover of Ramadi, Baghdad is on high alert.
Islamic State fighters have vowed to take the capital, and they are just 70 miles away.
Islamic State loyalists claim Saudi mosque attack
A group purporting to be a newly established Saudi affiliate of the Islamic State group says it is behind Friday’s attack on Shiite worshippers in...
20 killed as Saudi Shia mosque is hit by suicide bomber
A suicide bomber has blown himself up at a Saudi mosque packed with worshippers for Friday prayers, killing around 20 people and wounding more than 50,...
Gaza facing ‘dangerous fiscal crisis’: World Bank
The Gaza Strip has the world’s highest unemployment and Palestinians, Israelis and donors must take action to avoid a “dangerous fiscal crisis,”...
Islamic State ‘in full control’ of ancient Syrian city of Palmyra
Islamic State fighters have entered the ruins of Palmyra after overnight fighting saw them take complete control of the historic city, according to a monitoring...
Islamic State seizes part of ancient town of Palmyra in Syria
Islamic State militants seized parts of the ancient town of Palmyra in central Syria on Wednesday after fierce clashes with government troops, renewing...
Saudi advertises for swordsmen as execution rate soars
Saudi Arabia advertised vacancies for eight executioners Tuesday after beheading nearly as many people since the start of the year as it did in the whole...
Saudi advertises for swordsmen as execution rate soars
Saudi Arabia advertised vacancies for eight executioners Tuesday after beheading nearly as many people since the start of the year as it did in the whole...
Judge jails 11 Afghan police over mob killing of woman in Kabul
An Afghan judge sentenced 11 police on Tuesday to one year in jail for failing to prevent the mob killing of a woman in Kabul who was accused of burning...
Saudi-led alliance resumes air strikes on Yemen after truce expires
A Saudi Arabian-led coalition resumed air strikes against Yemen’s Houthi militia in Aden overnight, hours after the expiry of a truce meant to facilitate...
Briton and two teens killed as suicide car bomber rams convoy in Kabul
A British national and two teenaged Afghanistan nationals were killed when a car bomb exploded near the main airport in Afghanistan’s capital on...
Briton and two teens killed as suicide car bomber rams convoy in Kabul
A British national and two teenaged Afghanistan nationals were killed when a car bomb exploded near the main airport in Afghanistan’s capital on...
Suicide car bomber kills at least three after ramming foreign convoy in Kabul
A Taliban suicide bomber detonated an explosives-packed car near the international airport in Afghanistan’s capital on Sunday, killing at least three...
Ousted Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi sentenced to death
An Egyptian court on Saturday sentenced the country’s first freely elected leader, ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi, to death over a mass...
U.S. commandos kill top Islamic State official in Syria
U.S. special forces have killed a senior Islamic State leader and captured his wife in eastern Syria, the Pentagon says.
Egypt’s former president Mohamed Morsi sentenced to death
An Egyptian court has sentenced former President Mohammed Morsi to death in connection with a mass jail break in 2011.
Bin Laden top aide sentenced to life in embassy bombing plot
A New York court sentenced Saudi exile Khalid al-Fawwaz to life in prison Friday over his role in the 1998 Al-Qaeda bombings of US embassies in East Africa...
IS militants seize government headquarters in Iraq’s Ramadi
Islamic State militants raised their black flag over the local government headquarters in the Iraqi city of Ramadi on Friday and claimed victory through...
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