He said the attack occurred near the southern city of Marawi, which is under siege by Islamic militants, as justification for imposing martial law across the southern third of the country. "The chief...
Indonesian police Wednesday used a steamroller to crush thousands of bottles of alcohol and torched a huge stash of seized drugs ahead of Ramadan in the world's most populous Muslim-majority country....
A group of hardline activists were removed from the flashpoint Al-Aqsa mosque compound in east Jerusalem on Wednesday after violating a ban on Jewish prayer there, police said. The 10 Jews held their...
Islamist militants battling security forces in a southern Philippine city have taken hostages, including a local priest, the Catholic Church said Wednesday, after President Rodrigo Duterte declared...
Police underestimated the threat posed by a self-styled Islamic cleric during a Sydney cafe siege and took too long to storm the building, an inquest found Wednesday, but it absolved them of blame...
Dozens of young men gathered Tuesday in a school yard in northern Syria to take the oath at a police graduation ceremony after a week's training supervised by the US-led coalition. They were the...
Former US defense secretary Robert Gates warned Tuesday that the West can expect further attacks like the suicide bombing in Manchester that killed at least 22 people. Gates, who served under both...
Five people were killed on Tuesday in two car bomb attacks targeting minority neighbourhoods in Syria and claimed by the Islamic State jihadist group. Citing a security source, IS's propaganda agency...
The wife of Jakarta's Christian governor told a tearful press conference Tuesday her husband had withdrawn his appeal against a blasphemy conviction and two-year jail term for the good of Indonesia....
Kabul police said Monday they were investigating a "terrorist" attack on an international guest house that left a German aid worker and an Afghan guard dead and a Finnish woman kidnapped. No group...
Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas accused US President Donald Trump on Monday of smearing the name of Palestinian "resistance" to Israeli occupation during a speech on Islam. Addressing Muslim...
The yawning gap between Tehran and Washington has grown even wider with US President Donald Trump's latest efforts to isolate Iran, which accused the United States of "milking" Saudi Arabia for...
Jakarta's jailed Christian governor Monday appealed his conviction for blaspheming Islam, his legal team said, as the United Nations stepped up pressure on Indonesia to overturn the controversial...
Ahrar al-Sham blamed the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) for the attack Ahrar al-Sham blamed the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) for the attack At least 14 fighters from the...
Thousands of Yemenis who back southern secession demonstrated in second city Aden on Sunday as a self-proclaimed autonomous body said it would press for the south's "liberation" from the north. The...
Turkish NBA player Enes Kanter said he was stopped at an airport in Romania on Saturday after his travel documents were canceled by his government. The Oklahoma City Thunder center tweeted a video...
US President Donald Trump made a 30-minute speech on Sunday in the Saudi Arabian capital Riyadh on his first foreign visit since taking office. Trump's speech, preceded by a traditional Koranic...
Saudi Arabia's King Salman on Sunday accused regional rival Shiite Iran of exporting extremist Islamic movements to the world and vowed to eliminate the Islamic State group. "The Iranian regime has...
Five young Bangladeshis accused of being Islamist militants surrendered to authorities Sunday, an official said, after a lengthy siege that prompted questions about heavy-handed police tactics. Elite...
A Hezbollah leader blacklisted this week by the United States and Saudi Arabia on Sunday branded the administration of President Donald Trump as "crazy". Just before Trump flew to Saudi Arabia on...
