Once one of the world’s oldest continually inhabited cities, parts of Damascus are now a city in desolation where death can strike at any time from above. A man filming in the city earlier this month showed how terror is the new normal in the Syrian capital, as fighter jets dropped a series of bombs onto a building only a ...

Most of Egypt’s key opposition parties are boycotting the vote In stark contrast to the turmoil and heated political contests of years past, Egypt launched a second round of legislative elections on Sunday in an atmosphere of repression and apathy. The election takes place in a context of restricted freedom of expression and a narrowing of the world of politics ...

Wearing Australian flags as capes and flashing chest tattoos proclaiming ‘Anzac’, the organisers of the Brisbane Reclaim Australia rally were forced to let Jimmy Barnes vocals do the talking for them, when their microphone failed to launch. Emma Miller Place, just outside the CBD, was home to duelling rallies on Sunday, with fences and a strong police line dividing Reclaim Australia supporters from the counter ...

A Turkish Kurd fighter who commanded a unit battling ISIS extremists in Syria was buried Sunday in Istanbul two months after his death in clashes, amid anger over the delay in bringing his body home. Thousands of supporters filled the Gazi district of Istanbul — a Kurdish and left-wing stronghold — to pay their last respects to Aziz Guler who ...

French jets will be able to launch airstrikes on ISIS targets from an aircraft carrier in the eastern Mediterranean from Monday, Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said. “It will be operational from tomorrow,” Le Drian told Europe 1 radio on Sunday, nine days after attacks in Paris that killed 130 people.

Thousands of people Sunday took to the streets in separate marches and rallies to mark Lebanon’s 72nd Independence Day after official ceremonies were cancelled for the second consecutive year over the absence of a president.

An Israeli woman was stabbed to death and three Palestinians were killed in a series of incidents in the Israeli-occupied West Bank Sunday, police said, as an eight-week-old wave of bloodshed showed no signs of dying down. A surge in street violence since Oct. 1 has challenged Israel’s security system and alarmed its main ally the United States, whose Secretary ...

A hostage siege at a hotel in Bamako, Mali’s capital, has again drawn international attention to the West African nation, nearly three years after France launched a military campaign against Islamic extremists in the country’s north. The campaign, Operation Serval, was widely considered a success in driving jihadists from Mali’s northern towns. What has happened since then to have led ...

Salah Abdeslam — the only one of the suspected Paris attackers known to have survived — is still at large and still very much at the center of a mystery. Nine days after the terror attacks that killed 130 people, a clearer picture is emerging of his movements — and it seems Abdeslam fled the city late on the night ...

With its reign of terror in the Middle East, its claim to have brought down a Russian passenger jet and now, the atrocities in Paris, ISIS has commanded global headlines as the world’s most dangerous terror group. But another militant Islamist organization overtook ISIS to become the world’s deadliest terrorist group last year,according to a new report. Boko Haram, the ...