BRUSSELS, BELGIUM- An F-16 fighter jet on Sunday carried out Belgium's first bombing raid in the fight against the Islamist State (IS) group in Iraq, the defence ministry said. Belgium has...

SAN PAULO, BRAZIL- A candidate running for the Amazonia state assembly in northern Brazil under the monicker Osama Bin Laden was detained during Sunday's vote for illegal campaigning outside the...

GAZA CITY, PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES, Adel Zaanoun- Surrounded by the rubble of a deadly war with Israel, Gazans marked a sombre Eid al-Adha festival Saturday with prayers and visits to the graves of...

LONDON- British Prime Minister David Cameron confirmed the "brutal murder" of aid worker Alan Henning by the Islamic State group Friday and vowed to bring his killers to justice. "The brutal murder...

ANKARA, Burak Akinci- Turkey's parliament on Thursday gave the government the green light to deploy Turkish armed forces to combat Islamist jihadists in Syria and Iraq. The mandate allows the use of...

BEIRUT- More than two dozen rights groups on Thursday called for the release of Syrian human rights lawyer Khalil Maatouq, two years after his "enforced disappearance" in Damascus. The appeal was...

DHARAMSALA, Claire Cozens- A global summit of Nobel laureates has been cancelled after the event was hit by a boycott over the South African government's refusal to grant the Dalai Lama a visa, peace...

BEIRUT- Islamic State (IS) group fighters have advanced further towards the Syrian Kurdish town of Ain al-Arab, a monitoring group warned early Thursday, as local fighters retreated from one of the...

JERUSALEM- The Palestine Liberation Organisation said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu blatantly manipulated the facts when he compared Hamas with the Islamic State group in a UN speech on...