In ISIS battle, Cairo struggles to rally armed Sinai tribes
An Egyptian military effort to recruit and arm tribal fighters to take on Islamic State (ISIS) militants in the Sinai is failing, according to...
ISIS denounces Saudi Arabia's anti-ISIS coalition
ISIS threatened to attack Saudi Arabia for "colluding with crusaders" after the oil-rich kingdom said it had established a 34-state Islamic military coalition to target...
The Times eats crow over claiming every fifth British Muslim extremist
The Times on Thursday corrected a “misleading” headline that claimed a fifth of British Muslims had sympathy for the Daesh, amid accusations Muslims have...
Saudi diplomats evacuated from Iran
Saudi diplomats evacuated from Iran after their embassy was stormed by protesters in Tehran landed in Dubai on their way home to the kingdom,...
Syria's Assad flies to Moscow to thank Russia's Putin for air strikes
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad flew to Moscow on Tuesday evening to personally thank Russia's Vladimir Putin for his military support, in a surprise visit...
Syria air strikes push Putin's rating to new high – Russian state pollster
Russian President Vladimir Putin's approval rating has hit a record high of almost 90 percent, primarily as a result of his decision to launch...
Russia identifies groups behind Egypt plane crash
Alexander Bortnikov, the head of Russia's Federal Security Service, said on Thursday Russia had identified groups behind the explosion of a Russian plane in...
Kurds claim victory over ISIS in Iraq’s Sinjar
Massoud Barazani, president of Iraq’s autonomous region Kurdistan, said in a press conference on Friday that the country’s northern town of Sinjar has been...
The Revenant storms to top of US box office
The Revenant has stormed to the top of the US box office in a weekend affected by the East Coast snow storm.
The Oscar nominated...
OPEC say Saudi comments show desire for higher oil price
OPEC delegates say comments from top exporter Saudi Arabia, which two years ago led the group to drop its historic role of supporting oil...
