Saudi Arabia is intensifying its crackdown on ISIS affiliates since a string of attacks on Shiite mosques in the country's eastern region.
Egypt, which is dealing with a growing insurgency in the Sinai Peninsula, is accused by rights groups of stifling dissent.
Kerry also said he was "absolutely convinced" all countries in the Middle East would be safer as a result of a nuclear deal between world powers and Iran agreed last month.
Indian Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj confirms the release of the hostages in an online post from her verified account on Twitter.
Reports in the Indian media suggest that the Islamic State group is involved in the Indians' abduction.
While British politicians are talking tough on the migrant crisis facing the country, refugees in France are determined to get to the U.K. at any cost.
The statement was made amid a continuing migrant crisis in Europe that has sent thousands of refugees attempting to cross from France to the U.K. through the Eurotunnel.
Lower oil prices and a multibillion-dollar charge for the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster slammed the British oil giant's second-quarter earnings.
Some 150,000 migrants have reached Europe by sea this year, most landing in Italy and Greece.
Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, son of the late Libyan dictator, was sentenced to death along with eight other members of the former regime for war crimes.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel assured Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu of the "solidarity and support of Germany in the fight against terrorism."
Libyan leaders say they could defeat Islamic State militants by the end of the year if the U.N. Security Council would lift its arms embargo.
According to a state department memo, Clinton’s private email account contained “hundreds of potentially classified emails,” the New York Times reported.
Egypt's move to buy the Rafale jets from France is widely seen as an attempt to reduce its dependence on the U.S. for arms purchases.
Hungary has begun constructing a razor-wire border fence, aimed at stemming a tide of migrants, newly wary of attempting to cross the Mediterranean Sea.
The kidnapping took place in an ISIS stronghold southeast of the city of Sirte, Libya, said a resident, who asked not to be named.
Egypt has arrested more than 600 Egyptian and Sudanese people in the past month for trying to emigrate illegally.
“Few countries are willing or able to counter ISIS as a global phenomenon,” simulations found.
Libya’s illegal networks have boosted the traditional tribal trans-Sahara trade network to almost $80 million.
Hillary Clinton assails financial executives who break the law, even though her family has accepted money from banks that admitted wrongdoing.
The landlocked West African country of Mali, infamous for its cocaine and cigarette transport routes, is adding heroin to its list of illegal exports.
The former secretary of state gave a speech on Monday in New York that outlined a progressive economic agenda.