H5N8 virus -- a strain of highly contagious  bird flu -- has been identified at a turkey farm in Lower Saxony's Cloppenburg region.  "The same strain of bird flu has been detected as the one identified in Germany's...

A Moroccan man who admitted setting fire to a Shiite mosque in Brussels to protest the crackdown on fellow Sunnis in Syria was sentenced to 27 years in prison on Friday for the attack that killed the imam. Rachid El-Boukhari, 35, had denied intending to kill the preacher at the main...

(Reuters) - A state prosecutor on Friday demanded a prison term of over four years for a 20-year-old German man accused of fighting with Islamic State insurgents in Syria , in the first trial of its kind in Germany . The defendant, identified only as Kreshnik B., who was...

French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve Saturday ordered with "the absolute urgency", the expulsion of a Tunisian man accused of recruiting young French nationals to join fighting in Syria. Following "the threat that his presence posed to public safety and security of the state,"...