Turkey's EU minister said on Thursday that German Chancellor Angela Merkel's comments about halting the expansion of a customs union between Ankara and the European Union harmed the credibility of the bloc. Merkel said on Wednesday there would be no expansion of the customs union and "no...

A man held a woman hostage at a radio station in the Netherlands for a little more than an hour on Thursday before he released her and was arrested, Dutch police said. A police spokeswoman told Reuters the woman had suffered no serious injury but had been taken to an ambulance for...

An elite forces unit linked to the army that controls much of eastern Libya has snubbed international efforts to bring to justice one of its senior officers for allegedly executing dozens of prisoners. The International Criminal Court (ICC) issued an arrest warrant on Tuesday for Mahmoud...

( The Guardian )- Islamic State terrorist Khaled Sharrouf and his two sons have been killed in Syria, media reports say. The ABC and the Australian reported government officials as confirming Sharrouf – who fled Australia in 2013 to join extremist forces – and his sons Abdullah and...