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Diplomats say Qatar's reticence to join the campaign against ISIS shows it is careful to preserve its influence with regional Islamist groups.

Cheaper crude could undermine Russia's and Iran's foreign policy and push oil-dependent economies into recession.

Despite a number of high-profile shootings in recent years — including Wednesday's Ottawa shootings — Canada's gun violence stats are low.

The country with the biggest oil reserves is importing light crude to grapple with falling domestic production.

Fears of a Venezuelan default are rising as an oil price fall squeezes the government's main income source.

The soccer icon makes his final national team appearance on Friday, but questions linger over his legacy.

The Algerian government has the identities of Hervé Gourdel's killers two weeks after he was beheaded by an Islamist group.

Dalil Boubakeur told crowds that the ISIS-aligned killers weren't true Muslims.

The U.S. is trying to get more countries to agree to join a coalition against the Islamic State, in Iraq and Syria.

France has so far ruled out joining the U.S.-led airstrikes in Syria against the Islamic State group.

Obama, speaking at the UN, asked the world to join together to fight the militants and vowed to keep up military pressure against them.

Jund al-Khilafah's beheading video of Hervé Gourdel closely resembled beheadings carried out by ISIS.

An al Qaeda splinter group named Jound al Khilafa, or "Soldiers of the caliphate," claimed responsibility for the abduction.

Al Qaeda dismissed as "lies" a U.S. assessment that it is in decline, but a defiant online message issued by the network on Sunday made no mention of the ultra-hardline Islamic State group widely seen as its rival for the leadership of global jihad.

The new group, reportedly named "soldiers of the Caliphate in Algeria," accused al Qaeda of “deviating from the true path.”