Five suspected ISIS are to stand trial in Jordan on charges of planning a deadly suicide attack last year on the Syrian border, a judge said Tuesday. "We have referred the file of the five accused, who are Arab nationals, to the state security court to try them in the case of the terrorist...

Iraqi forces said Tuesday they had seized the main government offices in Mosul and its famed museum as they made steady progress in their battle to retake the city's west from jihadists. News of the advances came on the third day of a renewed offensive against the Islamic State group in west...

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday pardoned a 46-year old woman who was sentenced to seven years in a penal colony for sending a text message to a Georgian acquaintance about the movement of Russian military equipment. An order from the president published by the Kremlin said Oksana...

Russia's communications watchdog said on Tuesday it had received a letter from LinkedIn Corp., a social networking website it had blocked, in which the company said it was not willing to take steps to comply with a Russian data storage law. "The company has refused to carry out the...