Islamic State militants left Ramadi's streets and buildings boobytrapped with bombs, hampering efforts to rebuild the city two weeks after Iraq's elite counter-terrorism forces claimed victory against the militant group there, officials said. Ramadi, the capital of Anbar...

By Louisa Loveluck and Ben Farmer (The Daily Telegraph)- Senior British politicians are leading calls for the RAF to drop aid to a besieged Syrian town where thousands of civilians are starving to death....

 Saudi authorities Sunday executed an Ethiopian woman convicted of murdering a Saudi female with an axe, the 50th death sentence carried out in the kingdom this year, the interior ministry said. Jinat Farid was found guilty of killing Ghalia Eida al-Harithi by striking her repeatedly with...

Syria's Al-Qaeda affiliate stormed a radio station and abducted two prominent media activists from a rebel-held northwestern town today, an opposition official told AFP. "Al-Nusra Front kidnapped at 0655 (local time) activists Hadi al-Abdallah and Raed Fares in the offices of Fresh...