The United States and its allies conducted 24 strikes against Islamic State in Iraq and Syria on Saturday, the coalition leading the operations said in a statement on Sunday. In Syria, near Tel Abyad, 10 strikes destroyed 23 Islamic State buildings, eight fighting positions used...

Somalia's al Shabaab Islamist group bombed a busy junction and a nearby restaurant on Sunday in the town of Baidoa, killing at least 17 people, a police officer and the group said. Al Shabaab often carries out such suicide attacks in the capital and elsewhere in its bid to topple Somalia's...

The veteran opposition figure, Haitham al-Maleh, to be the acting head of the Syrian National Coalition as former head Khaled Khoja finished his two mandates, sources said on Sunday. Al-Maleh is a Syrian Islamist activist and former judge who joined human rights field since the 1960s.

Pope Francis called on Sunday for a united response to help flows of people into Europe fleeing war and suffering, as the region argues over sharing the burden of looking after them. Addressing crowds in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Francis, who decried the suffering of...