Just days after ISIS declared its "state" in Afghanistan, the Taliban captured one of its main recruiters.

Little is known about the group other than its name, "Death," and its enmity for Islamist radicals.

An Argentine court released the allegations against President Kirchner that a prosecutor planned to present before his sudden death this week.

Two suicide bombers hit a cafe in an Alawite neighborhood of Tripoli, in what may have been an instance of violence between Sunnis and Alawites.

Beji Caid Essebsi's secularist Nidaa Tounes party claimed he was ahead in Sunday's election by at least 10 percentage points.

In September the U.S. launched attacks on Khorasan terror group leaders in Syria. After that, the group vanished from U.S. statements.

Mohsin al-Fadhli, thought to be the leader of the terror group, had a notable career in al Qaeda before turning up in Syria.

The new U.S. sanctions come amid reports of Iran resisting efforts to allow IAEA inspectors to access its nuclear enrichment facilities.

What is Iran willing to do in order to ease sanctions? Is renewable energy really a way the country can offset energy prices?

Khalid Mohsen Shaeri, 20, will undergo surgery to remove excess flab.

Bergoglio reportedly has long enjoyed good relations with the Muslim community in Argentina.

An Egyptian court suspended the parliamentary elections Wednesday, which had been scheduled to start next month.

Iran has reacted cooly to Barack Obama's reelection as U.S. president, citing his support of crippling economic sanctions.

Saudi Arabia regularly executes convicted criminals by beheading. Its use of the death penalty has been criticized due to a lack of transparency and due process in its criminal justice system

A top Syrian said Tuesday the government is prepared to discuss the exit of President Bashar al-Assad, but his resignation cannot be a precondition for talks.

Fighters from Ansar al-Sharia were beaten back by Yemeni troops and aircraft. The attacks came a day after the group again called for the government to free 600 militants in exchange for 73 Yemeni soldiers.

After a year of protests, diplomatic wrangling and an assassination attempt, Yemenis will draw a line under Ali Abdullah Saleh's three-decade rule Tuesday by voting in an uncontested election to install his deputy as president.

Iran said it had delayed its promised long-range missile tests in the Persian Gulf on Saturday and signaled it was ready for fresh talks with the West on its disputed nuclear program.

Amnesty said it believes hundreds of other prisoners are languishing in death row in the kingdom.

Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh signed a deal on Wednesday under which he stepped down from 33 years in power and 10 months of protests against his rule that have brought the country to the edge of civil war.

Mohsen Shahinpoor, a professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Maine, and a team at Seoul National University in South Korea led by Seung-Won Kim have both independently invented prototypes of robots that snap shut in response to stimuli and trap insects in the manner of the carnivorous Venus flytrap plant (Dionaea muscipula).

Iranian actress Marzieh Vafamehr was released from prison Monday after her sentence was overturned by an appeals court, Amnesty International reports. Vafamehr had been sentenced to a year in prison and 90 lashes for appearing in the 2009 Australian film My Tehran for Sale, which is banned in Iran.

An Iranian actress who was sentenced to a year in jail and 90 lashes for appearing in a film critical of the country's government has been released, according to Amnesty International and the film's producers.

Tunisian Islamist leader Rachid Ghannouchi is seen by many secularists as a dangerous radical, but for some conservative clerics who see themselves as the benchmark of orthodox Islam -- he is so liberal that they call him an unbeliever.

Shelling killed two Yemenis in the Old City of Sanaa, designated a World Heritage site by UNESCO, government officials said Wednesday, violating a cease-fire signed by the government and a dissident general backing opposition groups.

Yemen's government signed a cease-fire with a dissident general Tuesday to try to end weeks of worsening bloodshed but sporadic explosions and gunfire were still heard in the north of the capital.

The U.N. Security Council voted unanimously on Friday to condemn Yemen’s bloody crackdown on peaceful protesters and endorsed an initiative aimed at securing President Ali Abdullah Saleh’s commitment to leave office.

Several leading Hollywood organizations representing writers, directors, actors and the group that awards the Oscars, issued a sharply-worded statement on Wednesday lending their support to jailed Iranian filmmakers.

Anwar al-Awlaki, a U.S.-born cleric linked to al Qaeda, was killed in a CIA drone strike in Yemen on Friday, U.S. officials said, removing a global terrorist high on a U.S. wanted list.

Yemen's President Ali Abdullah Saleh said in an interview published Friday that he will only step down if his leading rivals do not take over, a stance that could further hinder a long-stalled deal to ease him out of power.