Iran conducted multiple ballistic missile tests Tuesday in an exercise to demonstrate "deterrent power," a move that comes in defiance of U.S. sanctions imposed over its missile program in January. The announcement by the official IRNA news agency said the tests showed the country's "all-out...

Turkey's state-run news agency says security forces have arrested two suspected ISIS militants and seized plastic explosives and a suicide vest. Anadolu Agency says Monday that the two were apprehended at a border crossing, when authorities noticed that they were trying to place a bag inside...

ISIS claimed responsibility for a suicide truck bomb blast that killed at least 47 people Sunday south of Baghdad. In a statement posted on social media, ISIS named the bomber who detonated his explosives-laden truck at a checkpoint outside the city of Hilla as Abu Islam al-Ansari....

Veteran Sudan Islamist opposition leader Hassan al-Turabi, one of the fiercest critics of President Omar al-Bashir's government, died of a heart attack on Saturday aged 84, officials said. "The Islamist intellectual Hassan al-Turabi has died," the state broadcaster reported. It interrupted its...