Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the man French authorities suspect of masterminding the attacks in Paris, has appeared in Islamic State (IS) group promotional videos driving a car dragging mutilated bodies towards a mass grave. Abaaoud, who uses the nom de guerre Abu Umar al-Baljiki, has been on the run since police stormed a jihadist cell in the eastern Belgian town of Verviers ...

More than a dozen US states say Syrian refugees are no longer welcome due to security fears after the Paris attacks. Governor Rick Snyder of Michigan said he was suspending the acceptance of new arrivals until after a review. Alabama, Texas and several other states issued similar statements but a State Department spokesman said the legality of this action was ...

The first Syrian family of the 12,000 humanitarian intake of refugees, who will arrive in Perth before Tuesday evening, are expected to settle into their new home quickly. Social Services Minister Christian Porter said the family of five – comprising two parents and three children – were from Homs, in western Syria, and had gone through rigorous processing and scrutiny. ...

French President Francois Hollande called on the United States and Russia to join a global coalition to destroy Islamic State after Friday’s deadly attacks in Paris. He said he would table a bill to extend the state of emergency declared after the attacks for three months and would suggest changes to the constitution. France’s military campaign against IS in Iraq and ...

Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi’s party won a historic majority in Myanmar’s parliament, marking the nation’s rejection of decades of military rule. While the results haven’t been officially certified, the win by the National League for Democracy means it will choose the country’s next President. The announcement, made by the election commission Friday, comes on the fifth anniversary of ...

Passport linked to terrorist complicates Syrian refugee crisis The Syrian refugee crisis just got worse, due to the Paris attacks.   Now more than ever, since the Syrian war began 4½ years ago, the crisis can be summed up as damned if you do, damned if you don’t. What made it worse? Sunday’s revelation that at least one of the Paris ...

EDITED BY KALAHAN DENG I don’t know how many more of these we have to read before we come out of our hibernation and say enough! This “creeping infestation” is happening right under our noses and we do nothing! Many European countries have already allowed this to go on for far too long and now it’s almost irreversible. Read this ...

They come from more than 20 countries, drawn to Libya as the funnel to Europe. Eritreans want to escape repression or military service; Somalis flee Al-Shabaab and clan warfare; Syrians have given up hope of returning home. In villages in Senegal and elsewhere across West Africa, young men sell all they have in the hope of a better life in ...

As Europe faces its worst refugee crisis since World War II, the European Union has launched an emergency fund for Africa to tackle the spiraling number of migrants flooding its shores. The nearly $2 billion fund was unveiled at the end of a two-day summit of EU and African leaders in Malta. The fund will support projects to combat poverty, ...

At least 15 people associated with a Norway-based Kurdish terror group were arrested in a multi-nation European sweep Thursday, Italian authorities said, with officials asserting the group was helping ISIS and plotting attacks against European diplomats. The coordinated arrests in Italy, the United Kingdom, Norway and Finland targeted alleged members of Rawti Shax, a group said to be a European ...