A military court convicted a Jordanian soldier on Monday in the shooting deaths of three U.S. military trainers at a Jordanian air base and sentenced him to life in prison with hard labor. The defendant had pleaded "not guilty," saying he opened fire because he feared the base was coming...

A top Kurdish counter-terrorism official said Monday he was 99 percent sure that Daesh (ISIS) leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was alive and located south of the Syrian city of Raqqa, after speculation that Baghdadi had been killed. Lahur Talabany also told Reuters that after its defeat Daesh...

Their husbands, sons and brothers are dead, but the women and children Islamic State militants left behind will live to pay the price for their actions. As Islamic State's days of ruling over vast swathes of Iraq come to an end, questions are emerging about what to do with their families....

Turkish authorities detained the editor of a regional newspaper over a column she wrote criticising the government for exaggerating the importance of last year's coup attempt, the newspaper said. Yeliz Koray, editor of the Kocaeli Koz newspaper in the northwestern province of Izmit, was...