Islamic State militants drove a tank rigged with explosives into a base south of the Iraqi city of Samarra on Monday, killing 38 policemen, military and police sources said. A further 46 people were wounded in the attack on the Muthanna bases in an area from which security forces and Shi'ite...

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan has vowed to punish the editor of a newspaper which published video footage it said showed the MIT state intelligence agency helping send weapons to Syria. The Cumhuriyet newspaper published footage on its website on Friday which it said showed gendarmerie...

Warplanes from a Saudi-led coalition launched air strikes on Monday against Yemen's Houthi militia positions in the north, center and south of the country, residents said. Saudi planes and artillery bombed the Iran-allied group's northern stronghold province of Saada, which borders the...

The leader of France's far right National Front party said on Sunday that a visit to Egypt to meet with the country's religious and political leaders had no effect on her views on Arab and Muslim immigration to France. Since taking over from her father and becoming head of the National Front,...

The anti-ISIS coalition will meet in Paris Tuesday after a series of shock battlefield gains by the jihadis, with Iraq under pressure to step up its fight by being more inclusive of the Sunni minority. The main focus of the meeting will be the crisis in Iraq, where ISIS seized the city of Ramadi...

 ISIS Sunday declared “war” on the powerful Libya Dawn militia alliance that controls Tripoli and claimed a suicide bombing that killed five of its fighters. The dawn blast in northwest Libya is the latest in a series of attacks by ISIS in the politically divided North African country,...

In his battle against militant Islam, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi is relying not just on bomber planes and soldiers but on white-turbaned clerics from Al-Azhar, Egypt's 1,000-year-old center for Islamic learning. He wants clerics to counter radicalism in the classroom....

Six world powers have agreed on a way to restore U.N. sanctions on Iran if the country breaks the terms of a future nuclear deal, clearing a major obstacle to an accord ahead of a June 30 deadline, Western officials told Reuters. The new understanding on a U.N. sanctions...

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry met his Iranian counterpart Mohammad Javad Zarif for six hours on Saturday trying to overcome obstacles to a final nuclear agreement, a month ahead of a deadline for a deal between Tehran and six world powers. They were the first substantive...

Heavy fighting erupted in southern Yemen near Aden airport on Friday when local militia attacked Shi'ite Houthi rebels in a push to drive them from the district, residents and fighters said. Saudi-led forces also made four air strikes on a military base near the airport, a source in the...

 Fifteen people including 10 police officers were wounded in an attack on a mosque at police camp on a remote Philippine island long plagued by Islamic militancy, officials said Saturday. Successive blasts targeted the mosque inside Camp Kasim on the island of Jolo early evening Friday...

A suicide bomber disguised as a woman blew himself up in the parking lot of a Shiite mosque during Friday prayers, killing himself and three others in the second such attack in as many weeks claimed by ISIS. The latest attack and a suicide bombing at a Shiite mosque that killed 21 people...

With most of its natural and mineral resources having fallen under rebel control, Syrian state revenues have shrunk, leaving the government dependent on unstable sources of income for its survival. Four years of conflict have decimated the state coffers. Now the government’s only...

The U.S.-led coalition conducted 20 air strikes in Iraq and four in Syria targeting ISIS militants since early Thursday, the Combined Joint Task Force leading the air operations said. In Iraq, air strikes carried out using attack, fighter, bomber and drone aircraft struck near Baghdadi,...

ISIS claimed responsibility Friday for bombings outside two heavily fortified five-star hotels in the Iraqi capital that killed 15 people. In a statement, ISIS said a suicide bomber called Abu Qutaiba had parked a car outside the Ishtar hotel in central Baghdad late on Thursday before...

Yemen's Iran-backed Shiite Houthi rebels, under fire from a Saudi-led coalition, have killed the capital's governor in clashes that erupted during an attempt to detain him, his relatives said Friday. Abdulghani Jamil and his nephew Nasr Jamil "died of wounds sustained during late Thursday...

Four people were killed when a car exploded near a mosque in Saudi Arabia’s eastern city of Dammam, on Friday, the Saudi Press Agency reported, adding that militants failed in their bid to hit the mosque after security officials foiled the attack. The attack targeted worshippers in al-Anoud...

At least 12 Australian women from one city have attempted to join ISIS, police said Friday, warning of a trend towards a "romanticized view" of violent jihadis. More than 100 Australians have left the country to support ISIS in Syria and Iraq, raising concerns about radicalization and whether...

(Reuters)- U.S. defense aid to Israel is likely to increase after 2017, sources on both sides said on Thursday, seeing a possible link to Washington's efforts to assuage its ally's fears over nuclear diplomacy with Iran. A current package worth $3 billion a year expires in 2017. A U.S....

The U.S.-led coalition has staged 26 air strikes since early Wednesday targeting Islamic State militants in Syria and Iraq against, according to the Combined Joint Task Force leading the air operations. In Iraq, 20 air strikes struck near 10 cities, including five near Mosul, three by Falluja...