An Al-Qaeda front group said it carried out an attack on security forces in Iraq's usually-quiet autonomous Kurdish region, in a statement posted on the Honein jihadist forum on Sunday. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant said the September 29 attack was in response to Kurdish...

  At least 50 people were killed in clashes between Islamists and police in Egypt on Sunday, as thousands of the military's supporters marked the anniversary of the 1973 Arab-Israeli war. Loyalists of deposed Islamist president Mohamed Morsi, overthrown in a July military coup, tried to...

    This is the story of how the   Syrian war   reached out 5,000 miles across the globe and destroyed at least 29 Lebanese lives in the Indian Ocean. It is a story of tragic irony; the destitute Lebanese families who wanted to live in Australia...

  I've spent much of the last week in Antakya, an ancient city, known to Byzantine Christians as Antioch, which now serves as a bivouac for Syrian rebel fighters and a jumping-off point for journalists and humanitarian actors working in Syria, which lies 20...