The evacuation of Syrian civilians and fighters from four besieged towns was completed on Friday after a 48-hour halt, as part of a mediated swap deal between the warring sides, state media and a rebel official said. Thousands of civilians and pro-government fighters from the Shi'ite towns...

The Egyptian military said Thursday it killed a senior ISIS cleric and 18 militants in airstrikes in the Sinai Peninsula where the extremists are waging an insurgency. The announcement came after ISIS claimed a series of attacks, including a shooting near a monastery this week and twin...

Twenty members of a suspected extremist network thought to have been behind a grenade attack on a Jewish grocery store in 2012 went on trial in France Thursday on terror charges. The "Cannes-Torcy cell," named for the towns where its members were based, is suspected of having planned several...

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said the United States was looking at ways to pressure North Korea over its nuclear programme as North Korean state media warned the Americans of a "super-mighty preemptive strike" and said don't "mess with us". U.S. President Donald Trump has taken a hard...