ISIS Sunday declared “war” on the powerful Libya Dawn militia alliance that controls Tripoli and claimed a suicide bombing that killed five of its fighters. The dawn blast in northwest Libya is the latest in a series of attacks by ISIS in the politically divided North African country,...

In his battle against militant Islam, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi is relying not just on bomber planes and soldiers but on white-turbaned clerics from Al-Azhar, Egypt's 1,000-year-old center for Islamic learning. He wants clerics to counter radicalism in the classroom....

At least 25 people have been killed by a fuel tank explosion in the Syrian town of Qamishli. The explosion is reported by state television to have killed at least 25 including children and wounded 30, in the predominately Kurdish northeastern town. Juan Mohammed, a Kurdish official in the...

Syrian air force raids on Saturday killed at least 136 civilians, including 7 women and 14 children, as government extended its intense aerial campaign against rebel-held areas throughout Syria mostly in in the northern province of Aleppo, a monitoring group said. The first air force raid on a...