Airstrikes resumed Sunday in a rebel-held valley near Damascus containing the Syrian capital's main water supply, a day after insurgents and the government failed to agree a plan to repair the springs knocked out of service two weeks ago. The government and allied fighters from the...

Germany's domestic security chief warned Sunday that the country's radical Islamist scene is not only growing, but becoming more decentralized, posing greater challenges to surveillance operations. In an interview with national news agency DPA, Hans-Georg Maassen also defended security...

(Al-Jazeera)- At least 12 people have been killed and 50 wounded in a car bomb blast in eastern Baghdad, police and medics say, in an attack claimed by the armed group the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).  The explosion hit the mainly Shia district of Jamila on Sunday,...

Saudi Arabia says the man who planned a suicide bombing in July outside of the mosque where the Prophet Muhammad is buried is one of the two extremists killed in a shootout with police in Riyadh. Interior Ministry spokesman Maj. Gen. Mansour al-Turki said Taie bin Salem bin Yaslam...