ISIS insurgents seized a small crude oil station near the northern Iraqi city Kirkuk where 15 employees were working, security and oil officials said on Saturday.
The ISIS hostage drama involving a veteran Japanese war correspondent and a young Jordanian pilot marks the first time the group has publicly demanded prisoner releases. It also signals a change in the extremist group's propaganda technique.
Kurdish forces in recent weeks have retaken parts of the strategic Iraqi town of Sinjar, whose Yazidi population was driven out in a humanitarian disaster last year that triggered U.S. intervention.
Japan' deputy foreign minister has said negotiations with ISIS threatening to execute a Jordanian pilot and a Japanese journalist have become "deadlocked," local media reported Saturday.
The White House Friday condemned Israeli plans to build 450 new settler homes in the West Bank as “illegitimate and counterproductive” to achieving peace.
The ideological leader of Yemen-based Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula said Friday that France had surpassed the United States as the top enemy of Islam, as...
Fighting between the Syrian arm of Al-Qaeda and Western-backed rebels in northern Syria spread from Aleppo province into neighboring Idlib Friday, the rebel...
A fiery 15 minutes of anti-regime polemic by a midlevel Syrian Druze sheikh which emerged on YouTube this week has sparked an unprecedented level of tension...
MP Walid Jumblatt decided to postpone his resignation to May at the request of Speaker Nabih Berri after a meeting between the two leaders earlier this week,...
Nigeria’s Supreme Court Friday quashed the conviction of a Lebanese national who had been sentenced to life in prison for conspiring to import weapons,...
Russia’s top general said Friday a strong nuclear arsenal will ensure military superiority over the West as Moscow forges ahead with a multibillion-dollar...
NATO head Jens Stoltenberg urged the alliance Friday to brace for further challenges after a “black year” of Russian intervention in Ukraine and terror...
Kurdish Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani warned that despite victories in the war against ISIS, the global coalition against the group was inadequate and...
The next meeting between some Syrian opposition figures and the Damascus government in Moscow will take place in about a month, Qadri Jamil, a participant in...
Iraqi Kurdish forces repelled a major attack by ISIS in Kirkuk province that killed a top officer Friday, while violence elsewhere left at least 19 dead.
A Syrian woman stoned by ISIS for alleged adultery and left for dead has miraculously walked away from the brutal punishment, a monitoring group said Friday.
With their town liberated but largely destroyed by battles that drove ISIS jihadis out, thousands of Syrian residents of Ain al-Arab are settling into...
When Bulgarian police on Jan. 1 arrested Frenchman Fritz-Joly Joachin, a self-confessed “old friend” of the Charlie Hebdo attackers, he was not the first...
Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Friday dismissed as “false” reports that his wife Sara had pocketed at least $1,000 worth of public money by...
Turkey is ready to “pay the price” if found guilty of the mass killings of Armenians a century ago, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said.
A U.S. citizen was shot and wounded in eastern Saudi Arabia Friday, state news agency SPA reported, adding to security concerns in the world’s top...
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi blamed the Muslim Brotherhood for playing a role in a sophisticated insurgent attack that killed 31 people in Egypt's...
Egypt's army and jihadists clashed in Sinai Friday, leaving two children dead, as President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi flew home early from an African summit after...
The White House has deep concerns about Israel's decision to issue tenders for the construction of 450 new housing units in occupied Palestinian territory, a...
Air strikes alone will not be enough to defeat Islamic State militants and greater Western help in building up Iraqi security forces could also play a role,...
The ideological leader of Yemen-based Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) says that France had surpassed the United States as the top enemy of Islam.
An outspoken, billionaire Saudi prince will launch a pan-Arab satellite news channel aimed at challenging established networks in the region.
Exiled Palestinian strongman Mohammed Dahlan, a rival of President Mahmoud Abbas, has been granted Serbian citizenship
International investigators say the destruction of Syria's chemical weapons production facilities has begun.
Morocco's state news agency says at least six people died when a boat carrying illegal migrants sank off the Mediterranean shore near the Spanish enclave of...
Two US citizens came under gunfire in Saudi Arabia, wounding one
The fates of a Japanese journalist and Jordanian military pilot are unknown, a day after the latest purported deadline for a possible prisoner swap passed