(Zaman Al Wasl)- ISIS fighters have recaptured early Monday three border towns with Turkey were under control of the Syrian rebels, Zaman Al Wasl local reporter said. ISIS took towns Dwaidan, Qarah Qweeri and Ghazel in the northern countryside. Omar Kassouma, military commander of Sultan...

Boko Haram Islamic extremists struck the northeastern Nigerian city of Maiduguri for the first time in months Monday with rocket-propelled grenades and multiple suicide bombers, witnesses said. At least 50 people were killed and the death toll could go higher. At least 30 were killed and more...

At least 32 people were killed and 90 wounded in two bomb explosions in the Syrian city of Homs on Monday, monitoring group the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. The blasts, one from a car bomb and another from a suicide attack, struck the Zahra district in the middle of the city, said...

 Iraqi forces swept the devastated streets of Ramadi for bombs Monday, after recapturing the city they lost in May and clinching a major victory against ISIS. Pockets of extremists may remain in parts of the city but the army said it had faced no resistance since ISIS fighters abandoned...