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Bosnia detains 11 for involvement in Syrian and Iraqi conflicts

Police in Bosnia on Thursday arrested 11 people on suspicion of fighting alongside Islamist militant...

Nov 13, 2014 08:48 AM EST

U.N. says 13.6 million displaced by wars in Iraq and Syria

About 13.6 million people, equivalent to the population of London, have been displaced by conflicts ...

Nov 11, 2014 09:31 PM EST

Obama and Putin are odd couple at Beijing summit

A few brief encounters between Barack Obama and Vladimir Putin during an Asia-Pacific summit in Chin...

Nov 11, 2014 05:06 AM EST

France to send military gear to Lebanon from early 2015: source

France will start delivering military equipment to the Lebanese army in the first quarter of 2015 as...

Nov 09, 2014 10:37 PM EST

France says anti-IS coalition must turn attention to Aleppo

The coalition fighting Islamic State must now save Syria's second city Aleppo as moderate rebels fac...

Nov 04, 2014 06:33 AM EST

Iraqi Kurds reinforce Kobani; U.S. planes pound Islamic State targets

Syrian Kurds welcomed the arrival in Kobani of Iraqi Kurdish fighters with their heavy weapons, hopi...

Nov 01, 2014 06:16 PM EDT

Kurds' battle for Kobani unites a people divided by borders

Cloaked in Kurdish flags, thousands of people lined the roads to cheer on a military convoy headed f...

Oct 31, 2014 09:24 AM EDT

Germany scrambles to counter lure of Islamic State

At Berlin's inner-city Carl von Ossietzky high school, Islamic State is on everyone's lips, says his...

Oct 27, 2014 02:35 AM EDT

Second British man in days charged with preparing terrorism acts

A British man has become the second in three days to be charged with preparing acts of terrorism and...

Oct 26, 2014 10:43 PM EDT

Turkey's U.S. relations show strain as Washington's patience wears thin

The U.S. decision to air-drop weapons to Kurdish forces in Syria on the same day Turkish President T...

Oct 23, 2014 08:11 PM EDT

Saudi Arabia jails al Qaeda suspects over plot to hit U.S. forces

A Saudi court has sentenced 17 people, four of them women, to prison terms of up to 30 years in two ...

Oct 23, 2014 12:17 AM EDT

Three Denver girls reportedly en route to Turkey detained, sent home

Three teenage girls from Denver who had been missing since last week and were reported to be traveli...

Oct 21, 2014 08:42 PM EDT

Britain may use mediaeval treason law to tackle Islamist fighters

Britain may use a mediaeval law dating to 1351 to charge citizens with treason if they go to fight w...

Oct 17, 2014 07:54 AM EDT

Islamic State training pilots to fly in three jets: Syria monitor

Iraqi pilots who have joined Islamic State in Syria are training members of the group to fly in thre...

Oct 17, 2014 07:47 AM EDT

U.S., Russia agree to share intelligence on common enemy: Islamic State militants

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov agreed on Tuesday to i...

Oct 15, 2014 12:35 AM EDT

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