Islamic State is preparing for a possible attack on a city in northeastern Syria near the border with Iraq where it remains a big threat despite recent setbacks, a Kurdish official told Reuters on Tuesday. Hasaka province in northeastern Syria is strategically important for all sides and...

 Saudi-led coalition warplanes bombed Yemen on Wednesday despite an announcement by Riyadh that it was ending its campaign of air strikes, while renewed fighting erupted on the ground between rebels and forces loyal to the exiled president. The hostilities illustrated how tough it...

   (Translation by Yusra Ahmed) Pro-Islamic State website said Syrian fighter who carried out a suicide attack on rivals of the hardline group in Kirkuk north of Iraq days ago.  'Welayyet Kirkuk' website posted photo of Abu Qatada a l-Jablawi...

(Reuters) - Italian prosecutors blamed the captain of a grossly overloaded fishing boat for a collision which capsized and sank his vessel off Libya, drowning hundreds of migrants including many women and children locked below deck. The few survivors of Sunday's tragedy told...