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“ISIL is a threat to world security, not our nuclear program, which is a peaceful program. Iran is a very influential country in the...

Islamic State militants fighting in Iraq and Syria released a video on Thursday that they said shows British journalist John Cantlie in captivity saying...

The Syrian government and mainstream opposition must seek compromise to end three and half years of bloody civil war and block the rise of...

Indonesia's anti-terrorism police have arrested four Turks suspected of being linked to the Islamic State jihadist group, a spokesman said on Sunday. The elite Detachment...

Top US diplomat John Kerry has vowed to build an enduring international coalition to defeat the Islamic State, saying almost every nation had a...

Al-Azhar is Egypt’s top religious authority and runs a university long seen as the most prestigious centre of Muslim learning.

The kingdom imprisoned dozens of people last month in security trials amid fears that the conflicts in Iraq and Syria will radicalise a new generation of young Saudis.

Helicopters delivering aid and ammunition to the area are targeted with machine gun fire on the way in, and mortar rounds once they land, said Nihad al-Bayati, who worked as an engineer at the Tikrit oil refinery but is now fighting to protect his hometown.

The United States had been aware that Douglas McCain, 33, a one-time aspiring rapper and basketball fan from California, was in war-torn Syria

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said at least 346 Islamic State fighters were killed and more than 170 members of government forces had died since Tuesday in the fight over Tabqa base, making it one of the deadliest confrontations between the two groups since the start of Syria’s war.

President Barack Obama said Monday that the United States has embarked on a long-term mission to defeat the insurgents of the so-called “Islamic State”...

Running twice-weekly tours from Syria’s Raqa to Iraq’s Anbar, IS’ buses fly the group’s black flag and play militant songs throughout the journey

When Roger Federer said after his ATP Finals loss that it’s the quality of rivalry that still keeps him going, it may not have...

Nineteen-year-old Riffat Sajjad wants to serve mankind – if she lives, that is. She is suffering from aplastic anaemia – a condition where bone...

Actor Bradley Cooper has sparked rumours of dating singer Jennifer Lopez after they were seen having dinner together. The internet was abuzz with reports...

As dancehall artist Vybz Kartel launches his own range of skin lightening cosmetics, it looks like this controversial fashion could be in danger of...

Various areas of Lahore have been facing low gas pressure for the last week. The Sui Northern Gas Pipelines (SNGPL) said that because of...