London-based bank HSBC reported Tuesday that annual profit slumped by more than 80 percent following a year of "unexpected economic and political events" that contributed to volatile markets and influenced investment activity. Europe's biggest bank that net profit for 2016 tumbled 82 percent...

Four Russian military personnel were killed and two injured when their vehicle was targeted with explosives in central Syria last week, a defence ministry statement quoted by Russian agencies said Monday. "Four Russian servicemen died when their car exploded on a radio-controlled IED on...

A 16-year-old Syrian refugee went on trial in Germany Monday accused of planning a bomb attack on behalf of ISIS. The youngster was arrested at an asylum shelter in the western city of Cologne in September, with the authorities describing him as a "serious threat." Police at the time...

ISIS on Monday claimed responsibility for a suicide attack near Mosul it said was carried out by a British suicide bomber, the SITE Intelligence Group reported. "The martyrdom-seeking brother Abu Zakariya al-Britani -- may Allah accept him -- detonated his explosives-laden vehicle on a...