(Reuters) - Brent crude oil prices fell below $59 a barrel on Thursday after U.S. government data showed crude stocks hit a record high last week. U.S. commercial crude oil inventories rose by 7.7 million to a record 425.64 million barrels in the week ended Feb. 13, said the...

(Reuters) - The images match the worst of Islamic State's atrocities: black-clad fighters and an English-speaking jihadist taunt the West before slaughtering their victims in orange jumpsuits on a Libyan beach. Their masked leader turns to the Mediterranean and points a...

  President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi warned Egypt would strike back at any militant threats to its security as he toured the border area with Libya on Wednesday, two days after Cairo bombed Islamic State targets there. Sisi, accompanied by Defense Minister Sedki Sobhi, toured an...

The Syrian government has committed to suspending air strikes and artillery shelling on the city of Aleppo for six weeks, the UN envoy to Syria said on Tuesday. The pledge is intended to allow a proposed UN plan to "freeze" hostilities in the country's largest city to...