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: Thursday, August 21, 2014, 19:36
German authorities have blocked plans to excavate a 3.5 tonne granite head of Vladimir Lenin for display in a new Berlin museum due to logistical and cost concerns, the organisers of the exhibition and local media said.
Last Updated: Thursday, August 21, 2014, 19:32
A specialised criminal court in Saudi Arabia has sentenced 18 people to varied prison terms for participating in terrorist attacks within the country, media reported.
Last Updated: Thursday, August 21, 2014, 19:30
Ukraine said Thursday border guards had begun checking a Russian humanitarian aid convoy at the crossing in eastern Ukraine`s restive Lugansk region.
Last Updated: Thursday, August 21, 2014, 19:27
More than 180,000 people have been killed in Syria since the conflict broke out in March 2011, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said in a new toll published Thursday.
Last Updated: Thursday, August 21, 2014, 19:25
Qatar, accused by a German minister of financing Islamic State (IS) jihadists, condemned today the group`s beheading of US journalist James Foley as a "crime against the principles of Islam".
Last Updated: Thursday, August 21, 2014, 19:23
The suspected British killer of US journalist James Foley will be found and brought to justice "sooner or later", Britain`s former anti-terrorism chief said today.
Last Updated: Thursday, August 21, 2014, 19:18
War-torn Somalia is awash with guns after more than two decades of conflict, with a 22,000-strong African Union force battling alongside government troops against the Al-Qaeda-linked Shebab.
Last Updated: Thursday, August 21, 2014, 19:16
Human Rights Watch Thursday said that hundreds of victims of a chemical weapons attack in Syria remained without justice one year on, days after Damascus`s stockpile was completely destroyed.
Last Updated: Thursday, August 21, 2014, 19:15
Fierce clashes broke out Thursday between the Syrian army and militants of the Islamic State (IS) Sunni extremist group on the outskirts of al-Tabaqa military air base, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) said.
Last Updated: Thursday, August 21, 2014, 19:12
Ukraine`s military today said its forces in the east of the country had captured two Russian armoured vehicles with documents linking them to an elite army paratrooper unit.
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