Indonesian police yesterday arrested six suspected militants over an Islamic State-linked plot to fire a rocket at an

Members of the US-led coalition have been accused of deploying a “scorched earth policy” in Syria by activists who claim to have documented scores of civilian deaths.

Iran yesterday said it had hanged 20 "terrorist" Sunni prisoners, in one of the Islamic republic's biggest mass executions in recent

Floods and heavy rain in Sudan have killed 76 people and destroyed thousands of homes in recent days, the interior

A Syrian refugee has been crowned "queen" of one of Germany's top wine-making regions, the first asylum seeker to

A video taken by a passenger of an Emirates plane which was involved in an accident on landing at Dubai airport, shows chaos inside the flight. The Emirates EK521 aircraft caught fire while landing at the airport with 275 people on board.

Syrian regime forces bolstered by Russian air strikes recaptured territory overnight in the southwest suburbs of the

Five people on board a Russian military helicopter were killed yesterday when it was shot down over Syria, in the single deadliest incident for Moscow since it intervened in the war.

Islamic State called on its group members to carry out jihad in Russia in a nine-minute YouTube video on Sunday.

Advancing Kurdish and Arab fighters backed by US-led air strikes now control 40 percent of the Islamic State stronghold of Manbij in northern Syria, a monitor said yesterday.

The head of the US Central Intelligence Agency has said he is not optimistic about the future of Syria remaining one country.

More than 56 million people in 17 countries affected by prolonged conflicts are struggling to feed themselves,

The UN yesterday urged Russia to give it control of humanitarian passages out of Aleppo in northern Syria where besieged residents

Yemen's government delegation to UN-brokered peace talks in Kuwait said it will leave today, signalling the collapse of

It's a barren plot on the outskirts of Istanbul, its stony ground baking under the merciless summer sun. A single sign gives a macabre clue as to the intended use of the arid patch.

A maternity hospital in north-western Syria has been bombed, causing casualties among patients and staff, a UK charity says. Save the Children says the bomb, from an air strike, has hit the entrance to the hospital in rural Idlib province.

The head of Al-Nusra Front in Syria said his jihadist group was breaking ties with al-Qaeda and changing its name, in remarks broadcasted yesterday by Al-Jazeera.

The United States has slammed as "provocative" Israeli plans to build hundreds of new settlement homes in annexed east

A woman is critically ill in northern Afghanistan after her husband nearly beat her to death, and cut part of her genitals, family

A massive bomb blast claimed by the Islamic State group kills at least 44 people and wounded dozens in the Kurdish-majority Syrian city of Qamishli.