(Reuters) - Islamic State militants fighting in Iraq and Syria claimed in a video posted online on Sunday that they had beheaded American hostage Peter Kassig. The video did not show the beheading but showed a masked man standing with a decapitated head covered in blood...

CAIRO (WAM)-   The Arab League (AL) on Sunday welcomed the decision taken by the government of the United Arab Emirates to add a number of organisations, including the Muslim Brotherhood and its local affiliates, to its list of terrorist...

At least 15 militants from the Islamic State for Iraq and the Levant were killed in Baghdad on Saturday, Iraqi army sources said. In other attacks, eight security officials were killed in the Iraqi capital, Iraqi security officials said on Saturday....

Saudi capital Riyadh would host a summit of Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) leaders this week in a bid to end a diplomatic rift between Qatar on one hand and Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Bahrain on the other, two Gulf newspapers reported Sunday. Saudi Asharq Al-Awsat...