The ISIS is preparing to attack India to provoke an Armageddon-like confrontation with the US, according to an internal recruitment document of the feared group which also seeks to unite the Pakistani and Afghan Taliban into a single army of terror.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday approved the "immediate" construction of 300 settler homes in the occupied West Bank as his government

Amnesty International has accused Israeli forces of war crimes during a day of “carnage” in the Gaza Strip that has been named Black Friday.

The Saudi-led coalition fighting rebels in Yemen suspended its air war yesterday to allow desperately needed aid deliveries, although

Syria's President Bashar al-Assad acknowledged the shrinking ranks of his government's army in a rare public speech yesterday, but

The Turkish army yesterday blamed PKK militants for a deadly car bomb attack that killed two of its soldiers in the Kurdish-dominated

Pro-government forces battled retreating rebels on the northern outskirts of Yemen's second city of Aden yesterday ahead of a

A United States air strike in Afghanistan killed a senior Al Qaeda commander in charge of suicide bombing and two other militants, the Pentagon says.

Turkish planes have for the first time carried out air strikes against Islamic State (IS) group targets in Syria.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday said after world powers reached a historic nuclear deal with Iran that Israel was not bound

Saudi-led warplanes bombed Yemeni rebels who clashed with pro-government fighters in the south despite a UN-declared truce aimed

The Islamic State group yesterday claimed a string of bomb attacks that killed at least 23 people in the Iraqi capital Baghdad. In a

A UN Yemen truce aimed at delivering desperately needed aid to millions threatened with famine failed to take hold yesterday as

A car bomb outside Italy's consulate in Cairo yesterday killed one person, the first attack on a foreign mission since jihadists began a

Yemen's main warring factions endorsed a UN-brokered humanitarian truce from yesterday midnight although heavy fighting on the ground and Saudi air

The negotiations over Iran's nuclear program have been extended through Monday, according to a senior US State Department official.

Islamic State group fighters attacked Iraqi police and soldiers in an area considered a major staging ground for operations to reconquer Anbar province,

Saudi Arabia's Prince Saud al-Faisal, formerly the world's longest-serving foreign minister who oversaw four decades of turbulent diplomacy for the oil-rich

The Israeli defence ministry says that two Israelis, including an Arab, were being held captive in the Gaza Strip, accusing Hamas of holding one of them.

In a game of high-stakes diplomatic brinkmanship, global powers were readying yesterday for a late-night push to reach a deal curbing Tehran's nuclear ambitions and ending a 13-year standoff.