The Islamic State group lost 12 percent of the territory it holds in Iraq and Syria in the first half of 2016, according to an analysis by British think-tank IHS.

South Sudan is "back to war", a spokesman for the vice-president has told the BBC, as rival factions clash and hundreds have been reported killed.

The Iraqi premier sacked three Baghdad security chiefs following a devastating bombing in the capital, his office said

Suicide bombers and gunmen have killed at least 30 people at a Shia shrine in Iraq, in an attack claimed by so-called Islamic State.

Tony Blair overstated the threat posed by Saddam Hussein, sent ill-prepared troops into battle and had "wholly inadequate" plans for the aftermath, the UK's Iraq War inquiry has said.

To the radical mind, if additional prayer and alms giving is encouraged in Ramadan - then why not more bloodshed too? View it that way and you understand precisely the line of reasoning that has given rise to such a grisly and gruesome death toll this year.

A search vessel looking for the remains of victims of the EgyptAir plane that crashed into the Mediterranean in May has recovered all of the mapped bodies from the sea floor, investigators say.

Iran will never coordinate with the United States in Syria and other regional conflicts, supreme leader Ayatollah Ali

Syrian refugees living in Turkey could eventually be granted Turkish citizenship, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has

A weeping Zainab Mustafa brought a photo of her husband to the still-smouldering site of a bloody bombing in Baghdad yesterday, seeking word of him and their two missing children.

At least 79 people have been killed and more than 131 injured in an explosion claimed by the Islamic State group in Baghdad, Iraqi police say.

Elie Wiesel, the Holocaust survivor, writer and Nobel peace laureate who worked to keep alive the memory of Jews slaughtered during World War II, has died aged 87, Israel's Yad Vashem Holocaust center say.

Five people were killed and another 22 were wounded early yesterday when a man entered a cafe in northern Serbia and opened

The memory chips of EgyptAir 804's black box voice recorder are intact and investigators should be able to access it, a

Israeli air strikes hit four sites in the Gaza Strip yesterday, causing damage but no injuries, officials said, after Palestinian militants fired a

Eighteen pilgrims have been injured in a stampede near Islam's holiest site, Saudi media reported yesterday, as the kingdom continues to

New Taliban leader Haibatullah Akhundzada yesteday called on the US to end its "occupation" of Afghanistan in his first message since

Heavy regime bombardment of a rebel-held Syrian town yesterday killed more than 30 people including two medical

Syrian President Bashar al Assad said in an interview broadcast yesterday that Western countries had sent security officials to help his

Israel should stop building settlements and the Palestinians should cease incitement to violence, the Middle East diplomatic quartet