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Somalia police end night-long siege of hotel, 23 dead

Somali security forces have ended a night-long siege by at a Mogadishu hotel by five extremist attackers who stormed the building after a suicide car bomber detonated an explosives-laden vehicle at the entrance gate Saturday afternoon. The attack killed 23 people. Troops regained...

ISIS shores up last stronghold on Syria-Iraq border

Daesh (ISIS) is building up its defenses in a pocket of territory on the Syrian-Iraqi frontier, the U.S.-led coalition said Friday, in an anticipation of assaults by Syrian and Iraqi forces aiming to snuff out the extremists' last stronghold. Iraq launched an offensive on Thursday to...