(Reuters) - Germany and Italy have closed their embassies in Yemen, following other Western states worried about security as the Shi'ite Muslim Houthi militia tightens its grip on power. A German Foreign Ministry spokeswoman said Berlin shut down its mission on Thursday and staff...

  RALEIGH — As thousands of mourners prayed for the three Muslim-American students killed in Chapel Hill this week, the FBI opened its own investigation into the case Thursday. In a brief news release late in the day, the FBI said it had...

(Reuters) - Jordanian air force jets bombed the hideouts of Islamic State militants in Syria on Thursday, state television said, resuming the intensified raids that it first launched last week in retaliation for the killing of a pilot. King Abdullah has vowed to avenge the...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Om Mohammed, an old lady in her seventies, has run away from Raqqa city northeast of Syria to protect herself and her son from the Islamic State, as they have been accused of apostasy, while her two daughters...