Egypt: no evidence of terrorism in Russian plane crash
Egypt said on Monday it had found no evidence so far of terrorism or other illegal action linked to the crash of a Russian...
700,000 flee as powerful typhoon slams Philippines
More than 700,000 people in the central Philippines fled to safer areas for fear of giant waves, floods or landslides as Typhoon Melor slammed...
Turkey re-imposes curfews on Kurdish cities
The Turkish authorities on Friday lifted a nine-day curfew in a key district in the southeastern city of Diyarbakir but then promptly reimposed the...
ISIS Claims Northern Syria Suicide Bombings That Killed 26
The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) group has claimed responsibility for triple suicide bombings in northern Syria that killed at least 26...
ISIS oil trade 'worth more than $500m'
The so-called Islamic State (IS) has made more than $500m (£330m) trading oil, a US treasury official has said.
Its "primary customer" has been the...
Turkey fines Twitter over 'pro-terror' content
Turkey's communications regulator has imposed an unprecedented fine on Twitter for allowing the publication of content deemed to justify terror, the state-run Anatolia news...
Putin vows 'extremely tough' action on Syria threats
President Vladimir Putin has ordered the Russian military to take "extremely tough" action against any threat to its forces in Syria.
Such targets must be...
Trump's name and image removed at Dubai development amid incendiary comments
The image and name of American presidential hopeful Donald Trump was gone on Friday from much of a Dubai golf course and housing development...
Iraq's most senior Shi'ite cleric issued a call to arms
Iraq’s top Shi’ite cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, called on the government on Friday to show “no tolerance” of any infringement of the country’s...
Efforts to crush ISIS will extend to Libya: French PM said
International efforts to crush ISIS will increasingly have to extend to Libya where the militants are getting a hold, French Prime Minister Manuel Valls...
