Paris attacks: ISIS claims responsibility for gunfire, blasts that killed 128 people ISIS has claimed responsibility for the worst violence witnessed in France since World War II, a volley of nearly simultaneous terror attacks that the French President called “an act of war.” The assailants targeted six sites Friday night in Paris, the deadliest being a massacre at a concert ...

Plumes of smoke blackened the sky above Sinjar as Kurdish forces, backed by intense coalition air support, tried Thursday to take back the northern Iraqi town from ISIS. The operation includes up to 7,500 Peshmergas — the Kurdish military force — who are attacking the city from three sides to take control of supply routes, according to the Kurdish Region ...

ISIS on Thursday purportedly released a video and audio statement threatening to attack Russia “very soon.” In the nearly five-minute long video, a chant in Russian is heard over visual compilations of old ISIS propaganda and generic video of Russian cities and buildings. The video is entitled “Soon Very Soon the Blood Will Spill like an Ocean” and was posted ...

US president Barack Obama and Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu have reaffirmed close ties between their countries, during a tightly-choreographed White House appearance designed to quiet disputes over Iran and Middle East peace. Speaking at the Oval Office, Mr Obama admitted it was “no secret” the two men disagreed on how to counter Iran’s nuclear program, but both sought to ...

A policeman has opened fire at a police training centre in Jordan, killing two Americans, a South African and two Jordanians, according to officials. The Jordanian embassy in Washington said the Jordanian assailant also wounded two Americans and two Jordanians, before being shot dead. President Barack Obama said the US was taking the attack “very seriously”. The US-funded Jordan International ...

A spokesman for NLD (Opposition National League for Democracy) leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s party has told supporters Monday it is heading towards a landslide victory in Myanmar’s first free and fair elections in 25 years. “We are winning more than 70% of seats around the country, but the election commission has not officially confirmed yet,” said NLD spokesman Win Htein. Ms Suu Kyi ...

Russia’s Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has admitted that a plane crash in Egypt’s Sinai peninsula that killed 224 people was possibly a terrorist attack. “The possibility of an act of terror is of course there as the reason for what happened,” he said in an interview to Rossiyskaya Gazeta state newspaper, parts of which were published on Monday evening. Britain ...

Inmates have lit fires at Australia’s Christmas Island detention centre in a “major disturbance”, government officials said. The unrest was sparked by the death of a detainee who had escaped the camp. The situation was “tense” for a while, the department said, but was now calm. Negotiations were continuing with those detainees protesting to resolve the situation “peacefully and as ...

It was billed as the moment when Europe finally took responsibility for the influx of desperate refugees arriving on her shores. In late September, European leaders agreed on a plan to relocate 160,000 migrants from the countries they’re flooding into — mainly Greece and Italy. Six weeks later, the scheme has only just gotten off the ground, according to new ...

Sharu Baharu, an 80-year-old with a magnificent handle-bar mustache, is facing his second winter on Mount Sinjar, where a bitter wind kicks up as the sun sets over the barren cliffs. Until last year, he had lived his entire life in the town of Sinjar below. Then, over a few days during August 2014, 5,000 men and boys in Sinjar ...