Islamic State has consolidated its grip on oil supplies in Iraq and now presides over a sophisticated smuggling empire with illegal exports going to Turkey , Jordan and Iran, according to smugglers and Iraqi officials. Six months after it grabbed vast swaths of territory, the...

FISHERS, Indiana (AP) — The death of a U.S. aid worker at the hands of Islamic State militants is "barbaric" and is not a true reflection of Islam, a cleric told hundreds of people who gathered Friday for the first of three memorial services honoring the slain man. Sheikh...

SOUSSE Tunisia (Reuters) - Tunisians were used to seeing Nidhal Selmi belting around a stadium, proudly sporting his country's red and white colors as a defender on the national football squad. So it was a shock when he appeared in a camouflage...

  Reporting by Mamoun Abu Mohamed; Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl)- Houses and properties of displaced people of Baba Amr  neighborhood of war-torn city of Homs have been distributed on regime army officers, Local activists said....