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: Monday, August 18, 2014, 06:46
Japan is looking into reports that a Japanese man may have been detained possibly by militants in Syria, the foreign ministry said on Monday.
Last Updated: Monday, August 18, 2014, 06:07
Ukraine crisis talks in Berlin were "difficult" but made "some progress", German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier has said after meeting with his Ukrainian, Russian and French counterparts.
Last Updated: Monday, August 18, 2014, 05:55
South Korea and the United States on Monday launched an annual military drill, Seoul`s defence ministry said, despite condemnation by North Korea which has threatened a "merciless" retaliatory strike.
Last Updated: Monday, August 18, 2014, 03:49
US President Barack Obama formally notified Congress on Sunday that he had authorized "limited" airstrikes in Iraq to help security forces, which retook the country`s largest dam earlier from militants.
Last Updated: Monday, August 18, 2014, 03:38
The frail survivors found inside a shipping container at a British port at the weekend following a "horrific ordeal" are Sikhs from Afghanistan and include 13 children, police said on Sunday.
Last Updated: Monday, August 18, 2014, 03:28
Two base jumpers were killed in separate accidents in the French Alps on Sunday after parachuting off mountains in their wingsuits.
Last Updated: Monday, August 18, 2014, 03:25
The trooper put in charge of tamping swirling racial tensions in this St Louis suburb vowed Sunday to stay "as long as it takes," after one person was shot and seven arrested in fresh violence.
Last Updated: Monday, August 18, 2014, 02:54
At least six people were killed in a petrol tanker explosion and dozens injured early Sunday along a key highway in northwest Kenya, police said.
Last Updated: Monday, August 18, 2014, 02:19
A total of 31 radical fighters were killed as the Syrian air force Sunday struck positions of the Islamic State (IS) militants in the country`s Raqqa province.
Last Updated: Monday, August 18, 2014, 01:52
Iraqi Kurdish fighters backed by US warplanes retook the country`s largest dam from jihadists on Sunday, as Sunni Arab tribesmen and security forces fought the militants west of Baghdad.
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