The Iraqi army and Sunni tribal fighters have dislodged Islamic State from the al-Waleed border crossing into Syria, an Iraqi military statement said on Saturday. The capture of al-Waleed removes Islamic State fighters from the vicinity of a U.S. base located on the other side of the border,...

Turkish authorities on Saturday freed the top advisor to Prime Minister Binali Yildirim detained on suspicion of links to the movement of U.S.-based Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen blamed for last year's failed coup, state media reported. Birol Erdem, a former senior justice ministry official,...

A suspected U.S. drone strike killed two men believed to be al-Qaeda militants in southern Yemen late on Friday, residents and local sources said. The strike took place in the al Naqba area of Shabwa province where residents heard a loud explosion that they say completely destroyed a vehicle...

Palestinian militant factions denied on Saturday a claim by ISIS that three Palestinian men who carried out a fatal shooting and stabbing attack in Jerusalem were members of the militant group. ISIS took responsibility for the attack on Friday, in which one Israeli police officer was killed...