(Reuters) - Islamic State militants fighting in Iraq and Syria posted a video on Friday that appeared to show the beheading of British aid worker Alan Henning, triggering condemnation by the British and U.S. governments. The footage on YouTube, highlighted on pro-Islamic State Twitter...

Reporting by Abdullah Al Ghadawi; Editing by Dani Murad (Zaman Al Wasl)- Despite Washington's official statements that the goal of the international coalitions strikes in Syria, is to defeat “Islamic State” without helping Assad's government, but since the bombing...

US and French defense chiefs discussed the possibility of France taking part in the American-led air war against Islamic State jihadists in Syria, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said. But his French counterpart, Jean-Yves Le Drian, would not confirm or deny that the subject came...

Tears flowed and prayers filled the air as the annual Muslim hajj by about 1.4 million believers from around the world reached its zenith on a vast plain in western Saudi Arabia Friday. "I am now a newborn baby and I don't have any sin," Nigerian pilgrim Taofik Odunewu told AFP,...