SOMALI MAN FOUND GUILTY IN KIDNAPPING OF CANADIAN JOURNALIST

Lindhout, a freelance journalist, was taken hostage in Somalia on Aug. 23, 2008, along with Australian photographer Nigel Brennan, while working on a story... READ MORE›

ACCUSED LINDHOUT KIDNAPPER TESTIFIES HE LIED TO POLICE ABOUT RANSOM MONEY

Ali omar ader twice told undercover rcmp officers he got 10k for ransom... READ MORE›

MOTHER PLEADED FOR AMANDA LINDHOUT'S FREEDOM DURING TENSE PHONE CALLS

Ali Omar Ader, a 40-year-old Somali national, has pleaded not guilty in Ontario Superior Court to a criminal charge of hostage-taking for his alleged role... READ MORE›

TERRORIST ATTACKS IN FRANCE TUNISIA AND KUWAIT KILL DOZENS

The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for the attacks in Tunisia and Kuwait, according to statements on Twitter... READ MORE›

UN VOTE ON IRANNUCLEAR DEALIRRITATES CONGRESS

At least two senior Democrats have joined the Republican leadership in complaining that the Security Council action expected Monday morning would pre-empt the congressional debate... READ MORE›

ISIS LEADER TAKES STEPS TO ENSURE GROUPS SURVIVAL

United States officials said gathering more insight on the Islamic State's shadowy leadership structure was a top priority... READ MORE›

ABU SAYYAF VIDEO 'SHOWS BEHEADING OF GERMAN HOSTAGE'

Abu Sayyaf is a small, but highly active group known for beheading, kidnapping, bombing and extortion in the south of the country... READ MORE›

ISLAMIC STATE VIDEO CLAIMS AMERICAN PETER KASSIG BEHEADED

16 COMMENTEMAILMORE The radical jihadist group Islamic State released a video Sunday it said shows American aid worker Peter Kassig being beheaded in Syria... READ MORE›

THREE SPANISH JOURNALISTS MISSING IN SYRIA, FEARED KIDNAPPED BY ISLAMIC STATE

Antonio Pampliega, JosA C Manuel LA?pez and A?ngel Sastre were last heard from on 12 July in Aleppo, says Spanish Federation of Journalists... READ MORE›

CHIEF OF ISLAMIC STATE IN LIBYA THOUGHT TO BE KILLED IN AIRSTRIKE

Before going to Libya, Zubaidi was a senior Islamic State operative in Iraq... READ MORE›

ABDUL-RAHMAN KASSIG KILLING IS PURE EVIL, SAYS OBAMA

Mr Kassig, 26, was taken while working for a refugee group... READ MORE›

U.S. TO DEPLOY SMALL NUMBER OF SPECIAL FORCES TO SYRIA IN ADVISORY ROLE

President Barack Obama plans to deploy a small number of special operations forces to Syria to advise rebels Washington deems moderate, U.S... READ MORE›

BATTLE FOR THE SENATE AS POLLS OPEN

Deutsche welle republicans seek senate in us midterms obama keeps distance 7 hrs ago... READ MORE›

U.S. TOP COURT BACKS OBAMACARE, PRESIDENT SAYS IT'S HERE TO STAY

The Obama administration said 16.4 million previously uninsured people have gained health insurance since the law was enacted... READ MORE›

OBAMA RULES OUT U.S. TROOPS ON GROUND TO FIGHT ISLAMIC STATE

He also sought a no-fly zone in Syria, a move Obama has resisted, in part because Islamic State has no air force... READ MORE›

TRUSTING IRAN TO STOP TERRORISM IS LIKE INVITING AN ARSONIST TO JOIN THE FIRE BRIGADE

The idea that Iran is a partner in the fight against terrorism is not only disingenuous but also absurd... READ MORE›

OBAMA SIGNALS 'NEW PHASE' AGAINST IS

Now what we need is ground troops, Iraqi ground troops, that can start pushing them back... READ MORE›

AFTER PARIS, AMERICANS WANT U.S. TO DO MORE TO ATTACK ISLAMIC STATE

Exclusive After Paris, Americans want U.S. to do more to attack Islamic State - poll... READ MORE›

OP-ED A REPUBLICAN CASE FOR OBAMAS CUBA POLICY

Washington I WAS born in Havana in November 1953 about six years before Fidel Castro led a revolution in Cuba... READ MORE›

U.S. PULLS PLUG ON SYRIA REBEL TRAINING EFFORT; WILL FOCUS ON WEAPONS SUPPLY

Effort would seek to enable Syrian rebels in much the way the United States had helped Kurdish forces to successfully battle Islamic State in Syria... READ MORE›

JON STEWART: LET'S CALL CHARLESTON MASSACRE WHAT IT WAS - AN ACT OF TERRORISM

In South Carolina, roads are named after the people who fought to keep black people off the roads... READ MORE›

ISIL THREATENS SLAUGHTER IN THE STREETS OF THE WEST

He said Mr Kassig was a selfless humanitarian worker who had gone to the region to help care for those fleeing the Syrian conflict... READ MORE›

As four Americans languished in the Islamic State's network of jails in Syria, at least 15 hostages held alongside them were released... READ MORE›

AS EUROPE HANDLES WAVES OF SYRIAN REFUGEES, U.S. IS SLOW TO HELP

Refugee and immigrant groups had urged the United States to admit more Syrian refugees long before the crisis erupted this summer in Europe... READ MORE›

PUTIN'S TARGET IS NOT ISLAMIC STATE

By contrast, the groups that Assad attacks, and which Russia struck on Wednesday, do routinely fight Islamic State... READ MORE›

BARACK OBAMA ADMITS IRAN NUCLEAR DEAL WILL MEAN MORE MONEY FOR TERROR GROUPS

Critics of the agreement immediately responded by accusing Mr Obama of handing billions to the world's foremost state sponsor of terrorism ... READ MORE›

ESCAPED CHIBOK GIRL AMINA ALI NKEKI

Chibok girl Amina Ali Nkeki in red, who was kidnapped by Boko Haram, with her baby daughter... READ MORE›

PARIS ATTACKS OVERSHADOW MEETING OF GLOBAL LEADERS ON SYRIA

Foreign ministers from Turkey, Saudi Arabia and others in the Middle East and Europe are here for a second round of meetings on Syria... READ MORE›

OBAMA'S BIGGEST FRUSTRATION: GUN CONTROL

President Obama says the biggest frustration of his tenure is the lack of new gun control laws... READ MORE›

'ISIS IS THE FACE OF EVIL'

Paris is not alone, Obama said highlighting attacks in Beirut, Turkey and Iraq... READ MORE›

BRITISH FAMILY STUNNED TO SEE 17-YEAR-OLD IN ISIS PIC

During one, four car bombers raced toward and drove through an Iraqi security forces checkpoint... READ MORE›

DONALD TRUMP SAYS THE US SHOULD ACCEPT REFUGEES FROM SYRIA

Politico reports that Mr Trump then referenced President Barack Obama's red-line warning to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in 2013... READ MORE›

BARACK OBAMA LEADS EMOTIONAL RENDITION OF AMAZING GRACE AT FUNERAL OF SLAIN PASTOR CLEMENTA PINCKNEY

Few will have been be more remarkable than that delivered by Barack Obama as he concluded his eulogy to the slain pastor Clementa Pinckney... READ MORE›