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France to set up center for returning young jihadists by year-end

France will open a center late this year to help reintegrate young French citizens who return from c...

Apr 30, 2015 06:50 AM EDT

Man who fought in Syria detained in Bosnia over police killing

A Bosnian who fought in Syria was arrested on Tuesday in connection with an assault on a police stat...

Apr 28, 2015 10:49 AM EDT

Ex-general, CIA chief Petraeus gets probation, $100,000 fine in leak case

Former U.S. military commander and CIA director David Petraeus was sentenced to two years of probati...

Apr 23, 2015 06:26 PM EDT

South Carolina teen 'seduced' by Islamic State sentenced on gun charge: newspaper

A South Carolina teen, who a prosecutor said was "seduced" by the Islamic State group and planned to...

Apr 22, 2015 07:54 AM EDT

French, Syrian intelligence agents in contact: Assad on French TV

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has told French television the intelligence services of his country...

Apr 21, 2015 09:16 AM EDT

Car bomb kills three outside U.S. consulate in Iraq's Kurdish capital

A car bombing claimed by the Islamic State killed three people on Friday outside the U.S. consulate ...

Apr 19, 2015 03:09 AM EDT

Four Britons who sought to get to Syria arrested on return to UK

Four Britons who were detained in Turkey on suspicion of trying to cross illegally into Syria were a...

Apr 15, 2015 08:04 AM EDT

Obama, Iraq's Abadi to discuss Islamic State fight in White House meeting

Iraqi Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi and President Barack Obama will discuss the fight against Islam...

Apr 14, 2015 08:36 AM EDT

Reuters Iraq bureau chief threatened, denounced over story

The Baghdad bureau chief for Reuters has left Iraq after he was threatened on Facebook and denounced...

Apr 12, 2015 12:51 AM EDT

After Iraqi forces take Tikrit, a wave of looting and lynching

On April 1, the city of Tikrit was liberated from the extremist group Islamic State. The Shi'ite-led...

Apr 04, 2015 01:20 AM EDT

Syria, Iraq a 'finishing school' for foreign fighters: U.N. report

More than 25,000 foreign fighters from some 100 countries are linked to al Qaeda and Islamic State, ...

Apr 01, 2015 09:49 AM EDT

In Sudan, an unlikely path to jihad for students

Tasneem Hussein was a soft-spoken university student in Khartoum when the transformation slowly bega...

Mar 28, 2015 06:28 PM EDT

France presses at U.N. for Islamic State to face world court

France said on Friday it would push the United Nations Security Council to refer the Islamic State m...

Mar 27, 2015 09:16 PM EDT

Saudi Arabia, allies launch air strikes in Yemen against Houthi fighters

Warplanes from Saudi Arabia and Arab allies struck Shi'ite Muslim rebels fighting to oust Yemen's pr...

Mar 26, 2015 07:07 AM EDT

Three men arrested for recruiting Islamist fighters in Italy

Police arrested three men on Wednesday for allegedly setting up a network in Italy to recruit Islami...

Mar 25, 2015 10:09 AM EDT

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