Middle East
U.S. reports 12 air strikes against Islamic State in Syria, Iraq
The U.S. military conducted six air strikes against Islamic State militants near the Syrian border town of Kobani on Sunday ...Suicide, car bombings in Iraq kill at least 33
Militants unleashed attacks on Iraq\'s majority Shiite community on Monday, killing at least 33 people, the latest in relentless assaults ...Turkey says US can use air bases for IS fight
Turkey has granted the United States access to its air bases for the campaign against the Islamic State group, including ...Donors pledge $2.7 billion for Gaza reconstruction
Donors at an international conference Sunday promised $2.7 billion to rebuild the war-ravaged Gaza Strip, but all of the key ...Islamic State seizes large areas of Syrian town despite air strikes
Islamic State fighters seized more than a third of the Syrian border town of Kobani, a monitoring group said on Thursday, as ...Street fighting rages in Syrian town as Islamic State moves in
Street fighting raged between Kurdish defenders and Islamic State militants who advanced into Kobani on Monday after subjecting the Syrian border town ...Kurds battle for key Syria town, woman suicide bomber hits IS
Kurdish fighters backed by US-led air strikes battled the Islamic State group for a key Syrian town Sunday, with one woman defender ...Kurds battle Islamist militants closing in on Syrian town
Kurdish forces battled overnight with Islamists trying to seize a hill overlooking a Syrian border town with Turkey as U.S.-led coalition warplanes ...Israel chides Swedish PM over Palestinian state
Israel has hit out at Sweden\'s newly elected prime minister Stefan Loefven over his decision to recognise a Palestinian state.Militants kill 20 in two separate Yemen attacks: sources
A suicide bomber linked to al Qaeda drove a car laden with explosives into a hospital used as a base by Yemen\'s ...