Protesters have rallied for a third night running in Morocco's city of Al-Hoceima, in a northern region of the country where there has been growing social unrest. An AFP journalist saw several hundred mainly young demonstrators gathered in two neighborhoods of the city Sunday night, chanting...

( The Guardian )- Secretary of Defense James Mattis said on Sunday the US had “accelerated” its tactics against the Islamic State, moving from a policy of “attrition” to one of “annihilation”. The retired Marine Corps general also said “civilian casualties are a fact of life in...

Britain's MI5 is to hold an inquiry into how it dealt with public warnings that the Manchester suicide bomber Salman Abedi posed a potential threat, the BBC reported Monday. MI5 was alerted to Abedi's extremist views at least three times, the BBC said. It is highly unusual for British...

Warplanes carried out three airstrikes on the Libyan city of Derna Monday, a witness said, days after Egypt launched strikes on militant camps there against those it said were responsible for killing Egyptian Christians. On Friday, Egyptian fighter jets struck Derna just hours after masked...