Iraqi authorities announced the execution of a dozen “terrorism” convicts on Monday, defying widespread international condemnation of Baghdad’s use of the death penalty as violence nationwide has surged. The latest executions, carried out on Sunday, bring to...

Burak Karan had a bright future as a professional soccer player in Germany and even played for the national team's youth side. But he ended his career at 20 and joined radical Islamists. He was killed in Syria in October. Burak Karan's first life ended on March...

The four small Syrian children and their father who drowned on Friday had been rescued only five days before from another boat off the coast of Kefalonia. They were fleeing the Syrian war, which had claimed the life of their mother, for a better future in Europe A doctor has...