Kurdish defenders of the strategic Syrian border town of Kobane awaited reinforcements Wednesday after weathering another onslaught by ISIS terrorists.
A United Nations official says evidence strongly indicates that the ISIS group's assault on Iraq's Yazidi religious minority is “an attempt to commit genocide.”
Canada raised its national "terrorism" alert on Tuesday, officials said, after a soldier run over by a suspected terrorist died in hospital.
A Libyan official says fighting in the eastern city of Benghazi between Islamist militias and pro-government fighters has left 65 people dead as fierce battles continued for a sixth day.
ISIS group fighters seized at least one cache of weapons airdropped by U.S.-led coalition forces that were meant to supply Kurdish militiamen battling the extremist group in a border town, but may have seized more.
An elderly Syrian took part in stoning his daughter to death for alleged adultery, in a video posted on YouTube by the ISIS group on Tuesday.
Ayatollah Mohammad Reza Mahdavi Kani, chairman of Iran’s Assembly of Experts, died in Tehran on Tuesday after being hospitalized for more than four months.
Supreme Leader of Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei on Tuesday received Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi.
Hezbollah's Secretary General Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah says the ongoing crisis in the region is aimed at redrawing the map of the Middle East.
A series of bombs blasts across Baghdad killed at least 21 people on Tuesday, police and medics said.