North Korean state media issued an aggressive statement from leader Kim Jong-un Saturday after U.S. President Barack Obama's recent suggestion that Pyongyang's leadership would collapse under pressure from outside. In an apparent reference to Washington, Kim accused "rabid...

(Reuters) - Air strikes alone will not be enough to defeat Islamic State militants and greater Western help in building up Iraqi security forces could also play a role, the head of NATO said on Friday. The United States leads a coalition of countries that has been carrying out...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- As fighting between the Nusra Front and Western-backed Hazzm movement in northern Syria has been escalated, the Shamiya Front announced Friday that Hazzm has joined its ranks to pull the fuse of war with al-Qaeda arm in Syria....

(Reuters) - Japan and Jordan scrambled on Friday to find out what had happened to two of their nationals being held by Islamic State, after a deadline passed for the release of a would-be suicide bomber being held on death row in Amman. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe...