Russian prosecutors on Thursday demanded a five-year jail sentence for a 21-year-old female student accused of trying to join ISIS in Syria. Varvara Karaulova is on trial in the high-profile case after she was detained last year as she tried to cross into war-torn Syria while still a...

Two Hamas militants were killed and three are missing after a tunnel in the Gaza Strip collapsed, the Islamist group's military wing said Thursday. "The Al-Qassam Brigades hail the fighters Ismail Abdul Kareem and Rami Muneer from Shejaiya, who died following the collapse of a resistance...

Russia and the United States are close to reaching an understanding on Syria's Aleppo, the Interfax news agency quoted Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov as saying on Thursday. "In the past several days an intensive document exchange on the situation in Aleppo has taken place,"...

A British hostage has appeared in a new Islamic State propaganda video said to have been recorded in the Iraqi city of Mosul, which coalition forces are currently trying to retake from militants. John Cantlie, a journalist who was captured in Syria in 2012, is pictured looking thin in the...