LONDON—British spy agencies are facing questions about how a young Londoner who was on their radar as part of terrorist investigations was able to travel to Syria and become the knife-wielding masked militant known as “Jihadi John.

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There are fears that more members of an Assyrian Christian community in north-eastern Syria were abducted by Islamic State militants than at first thought.

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BEIRUT (Reuters) - Kurdish forces dealt a blow to Islamic State by capturing an important town on Friday in the latest stage of a powerful offensive in northeast Syria, a Kurdish militia spokesman said.

Danish police say they have arrested a third man suspected of assisting a gunman who killed two people in attacks in Copenhagen this month.

Seoul: Four people, including a policeman, were killed today in the second shooting incident in two days in South Korea where gun crime is extremely rare.

Two llamas ran loose through Sun City, Ariz., on Thursday, and the Maricopa County Sheriff's Department was called in to help catch them.

A South African woman has appeared in court over the kidnapping of a baby in Cape Town hospital 17 years ago. The girl's biological parents, Celeste and Morne Nurse, were reunited with her after she was enrolled in the same school as her sister.

White House spokesman Josh Earnest said Thursday that up to 150 Muslims in America have joined, or have tried to join, ISIS in northern Syria, amid an intensive government-backed anti-radicalization campaign by U.S.

MADRID - The Spanish police on Friday carried out the first arrests in Western Europe of citizens accused of traveling to Ukraine to fight on the side of the Russian-backed rebels there.

Senior officials from Iran and six powers negotiating with Tehran over its nuclear program will hold more talks in Montreux, Switzerland on March 5, the European Union said on Friday.

Kabul: More than 250 people have been killed in a series of avalanches triggered by heavy snowfall around Afghanistan this week, provincial authorities said on Friday.

Eye witness Turgay Aydemir described Istanbul security scare. U.S. diplomats played down the incident but were taking no chances. About Us · Careers · Contact · Privacy Policy - UPDATED · Terms of Service · Site Map · Advertise · Ad Choices · Outlook.

Benjamin Netanyahu's planned speech to Congress next week has led to much talk of a rift between the Israeli prime minister and the US president, and even between their two countries.