The family of an Iraqi female journalist kidnapped in Baghdad last week says she has been released. Nibras Shawqi al-Qaisi told The Associated Press Wednesday that her sister, Afrah, was released the night before, without providing further details. Gunmen who said they were members of...

Turkish police Wednesday detained at least five suspected ISIS militants believed to be linked to the deadly Istanbul nightclub attack, the state-run news agency reported. The operation was launched in the Aegean port city of Izmir and was ongoing, Anadolu Agency said. The gunman, who...

In three words of a tweet this week, U.S. President-elect Donald Trump vowed North Korea would never test an intercontinental ballistic missile. "It won't happen!" Trump wrote after North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said on Sunday his nuclear-capable country was close to testing an ICBM of a...

Instead of bombs there were beats. Guitars took over for guns, and there were cheers, not screams. Still, Aleppo was never far from the minds of the band Musiqana and the crowd at its record-release concert in Berlin. “I didn’t know if I should cry or be happy,” said Syrian-born Samaa...