IRAQ MOUNTS NEW BID TO RETAKE CITIES UNDER ISLAMIC STATE MILITANT CONTROL

Iraqi forces have launched a fresh offensive to retake cities controlled by the so-called Islamic State group... READ MORE›

JORDAN CONDEMNS FIVE ISLAMIC STATE 'TERRORISM' CELL MEMBERS

AMMAN - A court in Amman on Wednesday sentenced to death five Jordanian members of a cell linked to the Islamic State group for terrorism... READ MORE›

PILOTS CLAIMED THEY WERE SHORT OF FUEL TO BAG PRIORITY LANDING SLOTS

IndiGo, operated by InterGlobe Aviation Ltd., declined to comment while Air India didn't immediately respond to an e-mail seeking comment... READ MORE›

MICHIGAN STATE SKIRTS UPROAR FROM VERY CONVENIENT CLOCK ERROR

It's hard to be honest and mad and happy at the same time, Michigan State coach Tom Izzo said... READ MORE›

AUTHORITIES: TIMES SQUARE CITED IN ISLAMIC STATE GROUP CASE

The Islamic State group claimed credit for the attack... READ MORE›

JAPANESE JOURNALIST HELD IN IRAQ SAYS HE WAS ISLAMIC STATE INTERPRETER

Tsuneoka was detained this week for alleged connections with the Islamic State group... READ MORE›

VIRGINIA MAN ACCUSED OF JOINING ISLAMIC STATE INDICTED

A grand jury returned an indictment charging him with providing material support to the Islamic State group and other terrorism-related charges earlier this week... READ MORE›

DOCUMENTS DETAIL ISLAMIC STATE GUIDELINES FOR BEARDS, CONCUBINES

After the Islamic State group conquered villages in northern Iraq, it spelled out in minute detail the rules of its self-proclaimed caliphate, from beard l... READ MORE›

CLINTON AND TRUMP ON THE ISLAMIC STATE

TRUMP The Republican nominee has made no secret of his willingness to work with the Russians in the fight against the Islamic State group... READ MORE›

ELDERLY WOMAN CHALLENGES ISLAMIC STATE MILITANTS, CALLING THEM 'DEVILS'

Video Elderly woman challenges Islamic State militants, calling them 'devils'... READ MORE›

IRAQI KURDS IN OFFENSIVE TO RETAKE ISIL-HELD TOWN

Kurdish Iraqi fighters, backed by the U.S.-led air campaign, launched an assault Thursday aiming to retake the strategic town of Sinjar... READ MORE›

CECIL THE LION AND ENDANGERED ANIMALS LIGHT UP NEW YORK

Cecil the lion and world's most endangered animals projected on Empire State Building... READ MORE›

INDIAA??S HUGE NEED FOR ELECTRICITY IS A PROBLEM FOR THE PLANET

Chowkipur, a village in India that has no electricity... READ MORE›

TROOPS NOTIFIED THEIR NAMES ARE ON ISLAMIC STATE KILL LIST

An Egyptian military jet takes off from an undisclosed base on Feb... READ MORE›

SAUDI ARABIA SAYS IT STOPPED ISIS ATTACKS 400 HELD

Meanwhile, reports emerged Saturday that the Islamic State group used projectile-delivered poison gas against Kurdish forces in Iraq and Syria on several occasions last month... READ MORE›

ISLAMIC STATE SAYS IT'LL MINT OWN COINS

It's unclear where the Islamic State group intends to get the gold, silver and copper for the coins... READ MORE›

NXP TO BUY FREESCALE CREATE 40 BILLION COMPANY

Tikrit is one of the largest cities held by the Islamic State group and sits on the road to Mosul... READ MORE›

DESPERATE BRIDE MARRIES WEDDING GUEST INSTEAD OF GROOM

16 Feb 2015 The controversial decision did not go down well with the rejected groom's family, who reportedly tried to force Indira to change her decision... READ MORE›

ISLAMIC STATE EXECUTES 50 MEMBERS OF IRAQI TRIBE

However, some Sunnis in Anbar supported militants including the Sunni militants of Islamic State group when they seized Fallujah and parts of Ramadi in December... READ MORE›

KIN VIEW VICTIM'S BODIES IN DHAKA AS ATTACK HIGHLIGHTS GROWING ISLAMIC STATE THREAT

Groups that are now active there include the al-Qaida-affiliated Ansarullah Bangla Team, al-Qaida in the Indian Subcontinent AQIS, the Islamic State group and JMB... READ MORE›

BANDITS GANG-RAPE ELDERLY NUN IN INDIA DURING ATTACK ON CHRISTIAN MISSIONARY SCHOOL

Please read our An elderly nun was allegedly gang-raped by a group of men who broke into a Christian missionary school in eastern India... READ MORE›

ISLAMIC STATE MILITANTS DAMAGE HATRA ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE WITH SLEDGEHAMMERS

The video's release comes after the Iraqi government this week claimed victory against the Islamic State group in Saddam Hussein's hometown Tikrit... READ MORE›

'DAESH,' OTHER ISLAMIC STATE NAMES EXPLAINED

O Stands for Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, or Islamic State in Iraq and al-Sham o From The extremists' invasion of Syria... READ MORE›

BRITISH STUDENT WHO JOINED ISLAMIC STATE WANTS TO GO HOME

British student who joined Islamic State wants to go home Turkish MP... READ MORE›

JORDANIAN PILOTA??S FATHER APPEALS TO ISLAMIC STATE

The group said Syrian military aircraft struck two locations in the northern town of Qabassen, including a market, causing the casualties... READ MORE›

ISLAMIC STATE SAYS IT'S BEHIND GERMAN TRAIN ATTACK

Germany has thus far escaped large-scaleA terror attacks such as seen recently in France and Belgium andA claimed by the Islamic State... READ MORE›

U.S. ADVISERS STAY OUT OF HARM'S WAY IN IRAQ

In a concerted effort to avoid combat, U.S. advisers in Iraq are pioneering new techniques for calling in airstrikes against Islamic State militants... READ MORE›

ISLAMIC STATE CLAIMS RESPONSIBILITY FOR LIBYA BOMBINGS

They came a week after a video was released showing the beheadings of 21 Egyptian Coptic Christians at the hands of Libya's Islamic State group branch... READ MORE›

JAPAN SAYS HOSTAGE NEGOTIATIONS WITH MILITANTS DEADLOCKED

But the region is India's litchi center, and the epidemic occurs every year just as the fruit ripen... READ MORE›

AIR INDIA PERJURER INDERJIT SINGH REYAT GRANTED RELEASE TO HALFWAY HOUSE

Air India perjurer Inderjit Singh Reyat granted release to halfway house... READ MORE›

AT LEAST 21 KILLED, MANY TRAPPED IN OVERPASS COLLAPSE IN CALCUTTA

Mamta Banerjee, the top elected official of West Bengal state, confirmed that 15 people died... READ MORE›

REPORT: ISLAMIC STATE RELEASES 43 CHRISTIAN HOSTAGES

Defense Secretary Ash Carter laid out broad plans to defeat Islamic State militants and retake the group's power centers in Iraq and Syria... READ MORE›

VIDEO RELEASED OF U.S.-KURDISH RAID THAT FREED ISLAMIC STATE-HELD CAPTIVES IN IRAQ

And Kurdish peshmerga forces in which they released 70 hostages held by the Islamic State group... READ MORE›

Pennsylvania State Police Commissioner Frank Noonan said during a morning news conference I know a lot of people are wondering if the threat is resolved... READ MORE›

TURKEY UNLEASHES WAVE OF AIRSTRIKES AGAINST ISLAMIC STATE, KURDISH MILITANT TARGETS

Forces for the use of its Incirlik base for airstrikes against the Islamic State group in Syria and Iraq, according to American and Turkish officials... READ MORE›

INDIA POLICE FILE HOMICIDE CASE OVER FLYOVER COLLAPSE

Case filed against company that had been building overpass which collapsed in Kolkata city, killing at least 23... READ MORE›

'WE ARE ALL MUSLIMS': FATHER OF JORDANIAN PILOT CAPTURED BY ISLAMIC STATES BEGS FOR HIS SAFE RETURN

The United States and several Arab allies have been striking the Islamic State in Syria since 23 September, and U... READ MORE›

LIGHTNING STRIKES EMPIRE STATE BUILDING AMID SEVERE STORMS

During a hot summer night, a photographer managed to capture the exact moment a bolt of lightning hit the Empire State Building... READ MORE›

US-LED AIR STRIKES IN SYRIA 'KILL 1,600

22 Feb 2015 Isil emerged in Syria in 2013, growing from al-Qaeda's former Iraqi affiliate... READ MORE›

EXCLUSIVE: U.S. GRANTS SECOND AIRBUS LICENSE TO SELL PLANES TO IRAN

Licenses allowing such sales could easily be withdrawn by the Trump administration if he chose to do so, sanctions experts said... READ MORE›

U.S. SENATE LEADER SAYS IRAN SANCTIONS RENEWAL WILL PASS

We're going to take up the House bill, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell told reporters at the Senate's weekly Republican leadership news conference... READ MORE›

TRUMP SOON TO GET SOBERING REALITY CHECK, OBAMA SAYS

President Barack Obama cautioned against dire predictions for Donald Trump's presidency Monday, saying his Republican successor faces a reality check if he... READ MORE›

NEXT CONGRESS: PERHAPS A CHENEY, PANETTA, MORE MINORITIES

If elected, McGinty would be the state's first woman to serve in the Senate and could find herself the lone woman in Pennsylvania's 20-member congressional delegation... READ MORE›

GET SET FOR A PRESIDENTIAL FAIRY TALE AT THE UNITED NATIONS

President Obama evidently plans to spin a fine fairy tale Tuesday in his final speech at the United Nations... READ MORE›

OBAMA HOPES TO RALLY WORLD SUPPORT AT THE UN FOR WORSENING REFUGEE CRISIS

We need to give them basic succor, said Michel Gabaudan, president of Refugees International, an aid group based in Washington... READ MORE›

OBAMA REMINDS AMERICANS ON 9/11 THAT DIVERSITY STRENGTHENS U.S. FABRIC

President Barack Obama on Sunday marked the 15th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks by calling on Americans to embrace the nation's character as a people... READ MORE›

OBAMA CALLS ON AMERICANS TO EMBRACE DIVERSITY ON 9/11

Obama's comments also came in the heat of a presidential election in which voters will weigh which candidate would best keep America safe... READ MORE›

BARACK OBAMA SAYS 'AMERICA IS NOT AS DIVIDED AS SOME HAVE SUGGESTED' IN THE WAKE OF DALLAS POLICE SHOOTINGS

The black community is much closer to the police than in other cities... READ MORE›

'NO' TO OBAMA'S IMMIGRATION PLANS, SUPREME COURT SAYS

Texas had led 26 Republican-dominated states in challenging the Obama initiatives in court... READ MORE›

BORIS JOHNSON IN RACE ROW OVER BARACK OBAMA REMARK

BORIS Johnson has defended his attack on the part-Kenyan President Barack Obama, saying he did not imply the US leader was anti-British... READ MORE›

REPUBLICAN, SIGNALING A SHIFT, SAYS MORE MONEY NEEDED FOR ZIKA FIGHT

White House spokesman Josh Earnest said he anticipated that President Barack Obama would sign the bill, which provides financial incentives to companies developing treatments for Zika... READ MORE›