Paris police shot dead a man with knife and fake suicide belt, carrying Islamic State flag

Relations between Iran and Saudi Arabia deteriorated even further on Thursday as Tehran severed all commercial ties with Riyadh and accused Saudi jets of attacking its embassy in Yemen's capital. A row has been raging for days between Shi'ite Muslim power Iran and the conservative Sunni...

At least 40 people were killed when a truck bomb hit a police training center in the Libyan town of Zliten Thursday, the town's mayor said. Zliten mayor Miftah Lahmadi said the truck exploded at the center as hundreds of recruits were gathering there.

China has sent an envoy to Saudi Arabia and Iran amid an escalating feud, the foreign ministry said on Thursday, calling on all sides to exercise restraint. Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Zhang Ming was currently in Saudi Arabia and would travel on to Iran, ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying...