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UK vote to bomb ISIS in Syria

UK's parliament voted on Wednesday to launch bombing raids against Islamic State in Syria, supporting Prime Minister David Cameron's case that the country needs to...

Qatar's channel to militants useful but dangerous

To its foes, Qatar's deal-making with armed groups is reckless grandstanding that helps destabilise the Middle East. To its friends, the network of Islamist contacts...

Paris police shoot dead knife-wielding man on Charlie Hebdo anniversary

Paris police shot dead on Thursday a man wielding a knife after he tried to enter a police station shouting "Allahu Akbar" (God is...

Saudi-born Istanbul bomber planned New Year's Eve attack

Nabil Fadli, a Saudi-born Syrian who killed 10 German tourists in a suicide bombing in Istanbul, was planning a major attack on New Year's...

UK website aimed at parents who fear children may join ISIS

Britain launches a new website on Tuesday which aims to educate Muslim teenagers against groups like ISIS, as the government backed the right of...

More than 150 dead in IS attacks on Syria’s Sweida: monitor

Raids and suicide bombings carried out by the Islamic State group in Syria's southern Sweida province have killed 156 people including 62 civilians, a...

Saudi to boost aid and investment in Egypt

Saudi Arabia has pledged a total of eight billion dollars in investment and aid to Egypt over the next five years, as Riyadh looks...

ISIS claims deadly shooting in Russia's Caucasus

ISIS has claimed responsibility for a shooting at an ancient citadel in Russia's volatile North Caucasus region of Dagestan that killed one and injured 11,...

Saudi king sanctions Binladin group for Mecca Crane Collapse

Saudi Arabia’s King Salman has sanctioned the powerful Saudi Binladin Group over the collapse of a construction crane at Mecca’s Grand Mosque, which killed...

Bomb explodes at Somali airport, wounding 3 people

A Somali police official says a bomb exploded in a piece of luggage at an airport in a central Somali town, wounding three people,...

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