PRISTINA (Reuters) - Kosovo police arrested 40 men on Monday on suspicion of having fought with Islamist insurgents in Syria and Iraq, a crackdown aimed at deterring recruitment of volunteer fighters, authorities in the small Balkan state said. They said explosives, weapons...

  By Hamza Mustafa; Translation by Dani Murad Al-Qaeda group in Syria,   al-Nusra Front is   passing through its worst stages after a period can be described as "golden", started with the establishment of the Front in January 2012...

(Reuters- Exclusive) - Islamic State militants have killed at least 500 members of Iraq's Yazidi ethnic minority during their offensive in the north, Iraq's human rights minister told Reuters on Sunday. Mohammed Shia al-Sudani said the Sunni militants had also buried alive some...

(Reuters) - Israel and the Palestinians agreed on Sunday to an Egyptian proposal for a new 72-hour ceasefire in Gaza starting at 1700 ET, officials from the warring sides said. " Israel has accepted Egypt's proposal," a senior Israeli government official said, adding...