A London mosque was on lockdown Thursday after a man carrying a gun tried to enter it during Ramadan prayers. Metropolitan Police confirmed that a big police presence will remain at the Seven Kings Mosque in Ilford, northeast London. Worshippers at the mosque reportedly chased the...

Syrian regime forces recaptured a northwestern town on Thursday from around which jihadists and allied rebels have launched rockets on their Russian ally's key airbase, a monitor said. The capture of the town of Qalaat al-Madiq, on the southwestern edge of the jihadist-controlled Idlib...

North Korea fired two “short-range missiles” Thursday for the second time in less than a week, South Korean media reported. South Korean Joint Chief of Staff (JCS) said Pyongyang launched “projectiles” from the northwestern area of Kusong in an easterly direction into the East Sea,...

North Korea fired an unidentified projectile Thursday, South Korea's joint chiefs of staff said, less than a week after its leader Kim Jong Un oversaw the test-firing of multiple rockets and missiles. The projectile was fired at about 4:30 p.m. (0730 GMT) from a location in North Korea's...