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Turkey to citizens: joining Kobane fight not allowed Turkey will not permit its citizens to fight ISIS militants alongside Kurds in the Syrian town of...

Multiple US airstrikes on "Islamic State" targets The US military's Central Command said US aircraft carried out 18 airstrikes on "Islamic State" (IS) positions near...

Libya: 12 killed as army advances in Benghazi   Libya: 12 killed in Benghazi, At least 12 people were killed in the eastern Libyan city of...

Obama, Ban urge robust action to fight Ebola President Barack Obama spoke Monday with U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon about the need for more a...

British MPs back recognition of Palestine Motion adopted 274-2 by House of Commons urges government to "recognise state of Palestine alongside state of Israel". British MPs...

Operation under way for second day at main protest site that was occupied by pro-democracy demonstrators for two weeks. police clear protest sites (Hong Kong) The...

U.N. says cuts Syria food aid over funding shortfall   The United Nations said on Monday that it has started cutting the food aid it provides...

'Islamic State' advance toward control of Iraq's Anbar provice "Islamic State" militants have captured a military training camp in western Iraq as they move to...

Turkey okays U.S. use of airbase to fight ISIS Turkey has granted the United States access to its airbases for the campaign against the Islamic...

Kobani was under heavy artillery and mortar fire as night fell on Sunday, with fierce clashes underway in the south and east of the...

A Swedish-Kurdish man who has joined YPG in Kobane tells Swedish Radio that there are at least 10 Swedish citizens in the region and...

Syrian Kurdish fighters struggle to maintain Kobane Syrian Kurdish fighters engaged in fierce fighting with Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) militants on Saturday...

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry will call for a revival of the collapsed Israeli-Palestinian peace process on Sunday when he attends an international...

Austrian ISIS poster girls ‘want to return home’   Two Austrian girls believed to have travelled to Syria to join the Islamic State of Iraq and...