French far-right-leader Marine Le Pen refused to attend a summons for questioning by police last Wednesday over allegations that she made illegal EU payments to her staff, her lawyer said Friday. Le Pen, who heads the anti-immigrant and anti-European Union National Front and is a...

(Al-Monitor)- With a Feb. 28 deadline for the Pentagon to deliver revised plans to defeat the Islamic State in Syria fast approaching, speculation is rife as to what they will contain and the main players are spinning their own versions of a likely outcome. The Syrian Kurdish People’s...

ISIS carried out an attack on an Iraqi border guard position near Jordan Friday, killing at least 15 guards, officials said. "Daesh launched an attack with a suicide car bomb and gunmen on the 2nd border guard regiment near Trebil," an officer in the border guard told AFP, using an Arabic...

 Greece said Friday it was expecting an extradition request from Turkey for two Turks who had claimed asylum and were suspected by Turkish authorities of a link to a coup attempt last July. The two, who appeared to be members of the military, have been held at an undisclosed location in...