An Australian nurse who claims he was forced to aid Daesh in Syria is expected to be arrested by Australian police following his return Friday. Adam Brookman, a Melbourne resident and father-of-five, reportedly travelled to Syria in early 2014 to offer his medic skills to aid people in the...

What may be the world's oldest fragments of the Koran have been found by the University of Birmingham. Radiocarbon dating found the manuscript to be at least 1,370 years old, making it among the earliest in existence. The pages of the Muslim holy text had remained unrecognised in the...

An Austrian court sentenced a Chechen to five years in jail on terror charges after he traveled to Syria in 2013, the latest and one of the toughest verdicts in a string of Islamic State-related cases in Austria. The 30-year-old Chechen, identified as Magomed Z., was convicted of...

Three Italian ships rescued 414 migrants from four boats in the Mediterranean sea on Tuesday, Italy's coast guard said, with four newborns and one young child among those saved. About 150,000 migrants, many fleeing poverty and war in sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East, came...