Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday accused France of deliberately luring Moscow into vetoing a United Nations resolution on Syria and suggested Paris was doing the bidding of the United States. Russia last week imposed its veto on a French-backed resolution condemning the violence...

Moroccan authorities on Wednesday dismantled a "Daesh-linked terrorist cell", according to a statement issued by the Interior Ministry. "Within the context of preemptive operations to counter terrorist threats, the Central Office of Judicial Research [intelligence agency] -- in coordination...

France confirmed on Wednesday two of its soldiers had been injured in a drone attack carried out by Daesh in Iraq. Government spokesman Stephane Le Foll told reporters the soldiers were hurt earlier this month near the Iraqi city of Erbil. Speaking after a cabinet meeting, Le Foll said...

The population of the Israeli-blockaded Gaza Strip has now surpassed the two-million mark, the Interior Ministry in Gaza’s Hamas-run government has announced. In a statement, the ministry’s General Directorate for Civil Affairs said the strip’s total population had surpassed two...