Three Islamic State group car bombs killed 12 Syrian troops and militiamen in the northeastern city of Hasakeh where the extremists have taken two districts, AFP reported. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said more than 30 civilians have been killed in the clashes, with an increase in...

  Dozens of fighters from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and Syrian government forces have been killed in ongoing battles in Hasakah province, a monitoring group and activists said. The fighting has displaced more than 100,000 people, the UN said. At least nine ISIL...

Egypt's top public prosecutor died on Monday of wounds sustained in a car bomb attack on his convoy as it was leaving his Cairo home on Monday in a marked escalation of Islamist militant attacks on the judiciary. Judges and other state officials have increasingly been targeted by radical...

ISIS released an audio clip purporting to be a posthumous statement by a militant who killed 27 people in a suicide bombing attack on a Kuwait mosque Friday. The statement consisted largely of Koranic verses and was released on social media channels used by ISIS. The speaker criticizes...