Iran and major powers gave themselves at least until Friday to negotiate an agreement on the Iranian nuclear program, but a source from one of the powers said on Tuesday they had to wrap up in the next 48 hours. "We are continuing to negotiate for the next couple of days," EU...

The Islamic State group (IS) has reportedly killed a woman journalist and blown up an ancient Christian church in Mosul Soha Ahmad Radi, a Christian and the editor of the local newspaper Nineveh, was killed a few days after she was taken from her home in the east of Mosul, the Iraqi...

Turkey's army said on Tuesday it had detained almost 800 people trying to cross illegally from Syria, including three suspected Islamic State militants, after bolstering security in border areas near where the radical Islamists hold ground. The military said 768 people had been...

The man visible on the block's control room monitor, pacing his small cell in uniform grey robe, is one of a rising number of security prisoners in Saudi Arabia, where the wars in Syria and Iraq have led to a surge in domestic jihadist activity. Until last year, the population...