ISIS is aggressively pursuing development of chemical weapons, setting up a branch dedicated to research and experiments with the help of scientists from Iraq, Syria and elsewhere in the region, according to Iraqi and U.S. intelligence officials. Their quest raises an alarming scenario for the...

Turkey Thursday handed over to Greece a man suspected of seeking to join Syria extremist, though not in relation to any attacks under investigation, a police source said. The suspect, a member of the Greek Muslim minority living in the northeastern town of Komotini, had been arrested in Turkey...

Even Abdelhamid Abaaoud's own family prayed for his death, and on Thursday they got their wish when the Belgian jihadist behind the Paris attacks was confirmed killed in a French police raid. Abaaoud was a one-time school bully and petty criminal from the Brussels immigrant district of...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A powerful Syrian insurgent group said on Thursday it was studying a local ceasefire proposal tabled by an international mediator aimed at halting fighting near Damascus. Islam Alloush, spokesman for the Jaish al-Islam group, or Islam Army,  told Reuters the ceasefire...