Syrian Kurdish fighters said they had fully secured the town of Kobani near the Turkish border on Saturday and killed more than 60 Islamic State militants, two days after the hardline group launched an incursion with suicide bombers. Further east, Islamic State pressed another assault on...

Tour companies were evacuating thousands of foreign holidaymakers from Tunisia on Saturday, a day after a gunman killed 39 people as they lounged at the beach in an attack claimed by Islamic State. Tunisia's Prime Minister Habib Essid said most of the dead were British, and its health...

Four people were killed in separate bomb attacks in Baghdad on Saturday, police and medics said. In the Obeidi district of eastern Baghdad a bomb exploded near a crowded market, killing two people. Another bomb went of near a crowded grocery market in the Doura district of southern...

(Translation by Yusra Ahmed) A diplomatic Saudi document published among the 60 thousand leaked documents on WikiLeaks, mentioned that Syria had supported the former Minister of Interior, Nicolas Sarkozy, who became the President of France in 2007, by helping in calming down the riots spread in...