ISTANBUL, TURKEY, Stuart Williams- Turkey's military Saturday carried out a new wave of air and artillery strikes against both Islamic State (IS) jihadists in Syria and Kurdish militants in northern...

ISTANBUL, TURKEY, Stuart Williams- The Turkish military Thursday pounded positions of Islamic State (IS) militants in Syria after a Turkish soldier was killed by cross-border fire from jihadists, in...

WASHINGTON, UNITED STATES- The alleged leader of Al-Qaeda's Khorasan Group was killed in an air strike by the US-led coalition in northern Syria, the Pentagon said Tuesday. The "kinetic strike"...

MONKEY ISLAND, LIBERIA, Zoom Dosso- A speedboat laden with exotic fruit approaches and four chimpanzees come bounding over from the dense forest, screeching excitedly as volunteers throw them...

HARARE, ZIMBABWE- Chenjerai Hove, a leading Zimbabwean writer and outspoken critic of President Robert Mugabe, has died in Norway where he was living in exile, a friend and fellow writer said Monday....

GAZA CITY, PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES, Sakher Abu El-Oun- Five near-simultaneous explosions in Gaza on Sunday targeted members of the armed branches of Hamas and Islamic Jihad amid growing tensions...

DAMASCUS, SYRIA- Syrian regime air raids on the rebel-held Eastern Ghouta area near the capital on Saturday killed 12 civilians, a monitoring group said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights also...

BEIRUT, LEBANON- Al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate and its Islamist allies launched an attack Wednesday on the last two Shiite Muslim villages under regime control in northwest Idlib province, militants...

BEIRUT, LEBANON- Barrel bombs dropped from Syrian government helicopters on Thursday killed at least 11 civilians, including three children, in raids on a jihadist-held northern town, a monitoring...