Of the many stunning revelations to emerge out of the wreckage of Mosul on Wednesday — 500,000 fleeing residents, thousands of freed prisoners, unconfirmed  reports of “mass beheadings” — the one that may have the most lasting impact as Iraq descends into a possible...

The shadowy leader of thousands of Islamist fighters in Syria and Iraq, appears to be surpassing al-Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri as the world’s most influential jihadist. Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) — known for its ruthless tactics and...

(Reuters) - The Egyptian government launched a determined effort to get out the vote on Tuesday after lower than expected turnout in a presidential election threatened to undermine the credibility of the frontrunner, former army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi. After Sisi called for...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Shortly before Abdul Waheed Majeed, a 41-year-old British truck driver, blew himself up in an attack on a Syrian prison, he brushed aside a question in Arabic. "I'm sorry, I can't speak it," he said in a video. "My tongue bro'... it's got like a knot in...