Two bomb attacks in 24 hours — one of them involving an 11-year-old female bomber — killed dozens of people and wounded more than 120 others in the Nigerian cities of Yola and Kano, authorities said. At least 31 people were killed and 72 others injured in a bomb blast Tuesday evening in the northeastern city of Yola, Aliyu Maikano, ...

Beijing has vowed to bring ISIS to justice after the group said it had executed two hostages, a Chinese and a Norwegian. ISIS said it had killed the two men, identified as Chinese national Fan Jinghui and Norwegian citizen Ole Johan Grimsgaard-Ofstad in its English-language online magazine Dabiq.President Xi Jinping “strongly condemned” ISIS for the killing of Fan, the first ...

Gunmen who raided a Malian hotel shouted “Allahu akbar” as they sprayed bullets on tables of people who were gathered for breakfast, a witness said. The attackers did not say a word to anyone as they opened fire Friday morning, employee Tamba Couye said. They shot at “anything that moved” as terrified patrons dashed for cover all over the hotel, ...

French police investigating the Paris attacks Thursday raided the home of the mother of a woman believed to have blown herself up during a massive police assault this week. The siege on a building in the northern Paris suburb of Saint-Denis on Wednesday left two people dead, ISIS member Abdelhamid Abaaoud and a woman who detonated an explosive vest during ...

The suspected ISIS mastermind of the Paris attacks was among those killed in a police raid north of the capital, France confirmed Thursday, bringing an end to the hunt for Europe’s most wanted man. Authorities said they had identified the corpse of Belgian national Abdelhamid Abaaoud from fingerprints in the aftermath of Wednesday’s raid, in which at least two people ...

A Palestinian fatally stabbed two people in a Tel Aviv office building and three other people were killed in an attack in the occupied West Bank on Thursday, Israeli police and the army said. In the latest attack near the Gush Etzion settlement bloc in the West Bank, a police commander said a Palestinian drove along the shoulder of the ...

A 15-year-old boy arrested last week is being held for alleged ties to a “terror” suspect, the Lebanese Army said in a statement Thursday

Kuwaiti security authorities have busted an international cell led by a Lebanese man that was sending air defense systems and funds to ISIS, the interior ministry said Thursday. The cell’s chief, identified as Osama Mohammad Khayat, confessed that he raised funds and provided logistical support for the group, which has carried out deadly attacks in Lebanon and France in the ...

The bloody attacks in Paris show that France is a target of choice for jihadists due to its air strikes against ISIS in Iraq and Syria, as well as its controversial ban on the burqa face veil and attitude to Muslims, according to analysts. “If you can kill an American or European infidel, especially the dirty, nasty French … then ...

Islamic State warned in a new video on Monday that countries taking part in air strikes against Syria would suffer the same fate as France, and threatened to attack in Washington. The video, which appeared on a website used by Islamic State to post its messages, begins with news footage of the aftermath of Friday’s Paris shootings in which at ...