Israel sets up east Jerusalem checkpoints after violence spikes
Israel set up checkpoints in Palestinian neighbourhoods of annexed east Jerusalem on Wednesday as it struggled to stop a wave of attacks that have...
Blast kills 13 as Pakistani Taliban avenge executed Islamist
A suicide bomber killed 13 people and injured 23 in northwest Pakistan Monday, in an attack which the Taliban described as revenge for the...
Khashoggi’s family lawyer says verdict ‘fair and deterrent’
CAIRO, Sept 8 (Reuters) - Jamal Khashoggi's family lawyer said on Monday that the verdict issued by a Saudi Arabian court today is "fair...
U.N. experts: Up to 3,000 ISIS fighters in Libya
ISIS has between 2,000 and 3,000 fighters in Libya and has demonstrated its intention to control more territory in the strategically located North African...
Iraq PM appears in lead after first post-IS election
Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi's political grouping appeared in the lead Sunday following the country's first election since defeating the Islamic State group, after...
Islamic State claims Yemen attack
Islamic State claimed responsibility for an attack on the army in the eastern region of Hadramawt on Friday that a security source said killed...
Iraq lifts Reuters news agency suspension over virus report
After its license was suspended earlier this month, Iraq will allow the Reuters news agency to go back to work.
The suspension came over a...
Syrian opposition's Manna demands UN rethink talks invites
A Syrian opposition group has called on the United Nations to rethink its decision about who to invite for peace talks in Geneva and...
Singapore arrests 27 Bangladeshi "Islamists", deports 26
Singapore, a wealthy multi-ethnic city state, arrested 27 Bangladeshi construction workers who supported Islamist groups including al Qaeda and ISIS and deported 26 of them,...
Syrian opposition, rebels not invited to Vienna talks
Syria's main political opposition body and representatives of the armed opposition have not been invited to international talks on the country's war, an opposition...
