Saudi Arabia's King Salman on Wednesday named his powerful Interior Minister as heir to the throne and a son as second in line, under a shakeup that also saw the world's longest-serving foreign minister replaced. "We have decided to respond to his highness and what he had expressed about...

Ultra-radical Islamic State insurgents have killed at least 2,154 people off the battlefield in Syria since the end of June when the group declared a caliphate in territory it controls, a Syrian human rights monitor said on Tuesday. The killings of mostly Syrians included deaths by beheading,...

The Nigerian army said Tuesday that at least 200 girls and 93 women have been rescued from the notorious Sambisa forest, a Boko Haram stronghold. "Troops this afternoon rescued 200 girls and 93 women from Sambisa forest," the defense headquarters said on Twitter. "We cannot confirm if the...

 The last group of Peshmerga Kurdish forces fighting Daesh in Kobani are set to leave, now the Syrian city is free of the terrorist organization, the Ministry of Peshmerga Affairs has announced. A total of 124 Peshmerga Kurdish troops will head back to Iraq on Tuesday night or...