Last Updated: Tuesday, August 26, 2014, 13:45
Having wreaked havoc in Iraq, the militants started advancing through Syria After US started targeted air strikes on ISIS spots in Iraq.
Last Updated: Friday, August 22, 2014, 06:10
The United States imposed sanctions today on a Taliban financing company and two key Taliban men, labeling them global terrorists as it continued to crack down on the militant group.
Last Updated: Friday, August 22, 2014, 12:59
The Islamic State poses a greater danger than a conventional "terrorist group" and is pursuing a vision that could radically alter the face of the Middle East, US defense leaders said Thursday.
Last Updated: Friday, August 22, 2014, 06:08
Iran on Thursday denied linking any future cooperation with the international community against jihadists in Iraq to the lifting of crippling Western sanctions.
Last Updated: Friday, August 22, 2014, 05:59
Two American missionaries who contracted Ebola while treating patients in Liberia have left hospital after making a full recovery, doctors said on Thursday, as authorities in the west African nation struggled to deal with their dead.
Last Updated: Friday, August 22, 2014, 05:58
The United States admitted Thursday that the Islamic State is the most dangerous group it has faced in recent years and warned that the Middle East faces a long-term battle to defeat it.
Last Updated: Friday, August 22, 2014, 05:54
President Barack Obama won`t be taking part in the ice bucket challenge that is sweeping America to raise money and awareness for Lou Gehrig`s disease, also called amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS.
Last Updated: Friday, August 22, 2014, 05:53
Britain, France and Germany have put forward key points of a new UN Security Council resolution on Gaza in a fresh bid to end six weeks of violence, diplomats said Thursday.
Last Updated: Friday, August 22, 2014, 05:52
A college friend of alleged Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev pleaded guilty Thursday to removing evidence of the deadly 2013 attack.
Last Updated: Friday, August 22, 2014, 05:46
British human rights campaigner Helen Bamber, an early member of Amnesty International, died at the age of 89 on Thursday, the charity she founded said.
Last Updated: Friday, August 22, 2014, 05:44
Pope Francis has called the family of an American journalist whose videotaped beheading by Islamic State militants has touched off torrents of outrage around the world.
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