LONDON, UK- Two British men were sentenced to prison for terror offences Friday, as security forces crack down on what they say is a mounting threat from jihadists radicalised by the Syria conflict....

BRUSSELS, BELGIUM- A Moroccan man who admitted setting fire to a Shiite mosque in Brussels to protest the crackdown on fellow Sunnis in Syria was sentenced to 27 years in prison on Friday for the...

SANAA, YEMEN, Hammoud Mounassar with Dan De Luce in Washington- Al-Qaeda on Thursday threatened the imminent execution of an American journalist it kidnapped in Yemen, mocking as "foolish" a failed...

CAIRO, EGYPT- Thirty-one defendants are to go on trial in Egypt later this month on charges related to the 2013 killings of four Shiites outside Cairo, a court statement said on Thursday. The four,...

ROME, ITALY- Rome has a new walk on its historical tourism circuit: a virtual stroll through the streets of the ghetto to which Jews were confined for more than three centuries. From Friday, visitors...

PARIS, FRANCE- UNESCO chief Irina Bokova on Wednesday called for the creation of "protected cultural zones" to save heritage sites in conflict-torn Iraq and Syria that were at risk of "cultural...

BEIJING, CHINA, Felicia Sonmez- China will send artists, film-makers and TV personnel to live among the masses in rural areas in order to "form a correct view of art", according to a state media...

DHAKA, BANGLADESH, Shafiqul Alam- A Bangladesh court on Tuesday found an award-winning British journalist guilty of contempt for questioning the official death toll of three million in the country's...

BEIRUT, LEBANON- Syria's civil war has killed more than 200,000 people in less than four years, a monitoring group told AFP on Tuesday, adding that most were fighters from the two sides. "We have...