Dozens of religious leaders boarded a bus on the Champs Elysees in Paris on Saturday to kick off a European tour of the sites of recent Islamist attacks to remember the victims and condemn violence.    Imams from countries including France, Belgium, Britain and Tunisia were joined by...

Up to 20,000 civilians are trapped in the last Daesh (ISIS) held areas in Mosul's Old City, which Iraqi forces are battling to retake, a senior UN official said Thursday. More than eight months since the start of the operation to retake Mosul from Daesh, the militants have gone from fully...

Turkey appeared to toughen its stance in talks to reunify Cyprus by insisting Tuesday that it won't sign up to any deal involving the withdrawal of all its troops from the ethnically divided Mediterranean island nation. At talks to end Cyprus' 43-year ethnic divide at the Swiss ski resort of...

The U.S. military has carried out an air strike in Somalia against al Shabaab, an al Qaeda-linked militant insurgency that wants to overthrow Somalia's weak U.N.-backed government, U.S. officials said Monday. The strike took place at 1130 GMT on July 2, the Pentagon said. It did not disclose...