Dutch football legend Johan Cruyff has died on Thursday at age 68. The Cruyff Foundation said on its website that he passed away in his house in Barcelona. He had been receiving cancer treatment. In February, he had said he felt as if he was "leading 2-0 at halftime" against the disease....

Iraq's armed forces started on Thursday an offensive against Islamic State militants in the region around Mosul, pushing them out from several villages, according to a military statement on state TV.``The first phase of the Fatah (Conquest) Operation has been launched at dawn to...

Security officials have told The Associated Press that the ISIS has trained at least 400 attackers and sent them into Europe for terror attacks. The network of interlocking, agile and semiautonomous cells shows the reach of the extremist group in Europe even as it loses ground in Syria. The...

(The Daily Sabah)- Turkish authorities previously arrested one of the perpetrators of the Brussels suicide bombing less than a month after his arrival in Turkey via Antalya airport, Daily Sabah has learned. Ibrahim El Bakraoui (29), one of the two brothers identified by Belgium...

The warring parties in Yemen have agreed to a cessation of hostilities starting at midnight on April 10 and peace talks in Kuwait beginning April 18, United Nations special envoy Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed said on Wednesday. There have already been several failed attempts to...

Two brothers carried out suicide bombings at Brussels airport and on the metro on Tuesday, the federal prosecutor confirmed on Wednesday, adding that airport bomber Ibrahim El Bakraoui had left a will on a computer that was found. His brother Khalid blew himself up on a carriage...

U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said Muslims were failing to report suspicious activity and they must do more to help prevent attacks such as those that killed at least 30 people in Belgium. "When they see trouble they have to report it, they are not reporting...

Russian state transport agency Rostransnadzor has started checks on budget airlines, TASS news agency reported on Wednesday. Russian investigators are currently examining the flight recorders from a plane operated by Dubai-based budget carrier Flydubai, which crashed in southern...

A Russian court on Tuesday sentenced Ukrainian military pilot Nadiya Savchenko to 22 years behind bars after she was found guilty of involvement in the killing of two journalists in eastern Ukraine. The court found Savchenko "guilty on all counts" and sentenced her to 22 years in...

Tunisia extended for another two months Tuesday a state of emergency imposed after a deadly November bus bombing claimed by the Islamic State group, the presidency said. President Beji Caid Essebsi has "decided on an extension of the state of emergency over all the territory" of the country...

  Islamic State claimed responsibility for suicide bomb attacks on Brussels airport and a rush-hour metro train in the Belgian capital on Tuesday which killed at least 30 people, with police hunting a suspect who fled the air terminal. Police issued a wanted notice for a...

At least 26 people were killed and dozens wounded in a series of attacks in Brussels on Tuesday, described as a strike on the very heart of Europe. The bombings at Brussels airport and a metro station in the city that is home to the European Union and NATO are the latest in a...

One dead, several wounded at Brussels airport: police to Belga news agency (Sky News)- There have been two loud explosions at a Brussels airport which is being evacuated amid reports of a fatality and several casualties. Video and images on social media showed smoke rising from an airport...

An Iranian-backed militia said on Monday it said it would treat U.S. Marines deployed in Iraq to fight Islamic State as forces of occupation and "deal" with the foreign troops. Washington said on Sunday a detachment of the 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit was in Iraq, bolstering...

Turkish newspapers carried front-page pictures on Monday of three more men believed to be planning suicide bomb attacks for ISIS, after a suspected member of the radical militant group killed three Israelis and an Iranian in Istanbul. Sunday's attack on Istiklal Street, a long pedestrian...

Thousands of Kurds gathered for the Newroz spring festival in Diyarbakir in southeast Turkey on Monday under tight security after months of fighting between security forces and Kurdish separatists, and a series of bombings in Istanbul and Ankara. The armed Kurdistan Workers'...

More than 600 people have now left France for Syria and Iraq, with about 800 more wanting to leave to join Islamic State (IS), Prime Minister Manuel Valls said on Sunday. The figures show little respite in the number of people joining the jihadist group despite multiple bombing...

Police were on high alert across Turkey on Sunday after the previous day's attack by a suicide bomber in Istanbul's most popular shopping district, killing three Israelis and an Iranian, with dozens more people wounded in the blast. Israeli President Benjamin Netanyahu told...

The lawyer defending the prime surviving suspect for the Nov. 13 Paris attacks said on Sunday he would sue a French prosecutor for divulging Salah Abdeslam's private admission that he planned to blow himself up with fellow Islamic State militants. Speaking two days after Abdeslam...

  At least 13 Egyptian policemen were killed in the Sinai Peninsula when Islamist militants fired a mortar round at a security checkpoint in the city of Arish, security and medical sources said on Saturday. Islamic State claimed responsibility on several websites for the...