TERRORISM

The group described Sunday's car bombing as revenge for security operations that have been underway since July in the mainly Kurdish southeast.

Local media reported that freelance journalist Junpei Yasuda may be held by al Qaeda’s Syria wing, the Nusra Front, possibly for ransom.

No group has claimed responsibility for the suicide bomb attack at a mosque in the northeast Nigerian city of Maiduguri Wednesday.

The Islamic State group has been losing its grip on territory and increasingly leaning on child soldiers, a U.S. spokesman said Monday.

The surprise move, following Russian President Vladimir Putin’s withdrawal announcement on Monday, comes as Syrian peace talks enter their second day in Geneva.

Islamist violence has surged in the country, but the government has rejected the Islamic State group's claims, blaming the violence instead on homegrown militant groups.

Kurdish militant camps in northern Iraq were attacked Monday, one day after 37 people were killed in an Ankara car bombing.

The death toll from Sunday’s attack in Ankara rose to 37 and security officials said that one of the two suspected attackers was a female member of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party.

The terror group known as Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) claimed responsibility for the assault on at least three hotels.

The airstrikes in the port city of Aden wounded at least 20 civilians and militants as well as three members of the security forces, sources said.

While the Nigerian government has proclaimed a vicious insurgency "technically defeated," some are concerned the suggestion for displaced people to return home could be premature.

Israel’s air force plans to double its force of Heron TP unmanned aerial vehicles by the end of the year amid growing regional threats.

The United Nations says in a report that the Islamic State group is capitalizing on the political and security vacuum in Libya to grow its network.

Self-styled Islamic militants in the southern Philippines have demanded ransom for the release of a Filipino and three foreigners they captured in September 2015.

The president's comments on the Middle East rivals were part of a wide-ranging interview on foreign policy with the Atlantic magazine.

Bangladesh says the U.S. Fed wrongly released $100 million of the country's money to a bank account in the Philippines, money which was reportedly used to buy chips or pay for losses in Manila casinos.

President Benigno Aquino's statement on the Islamic State group seemed to go against the warning from the country's largest separatist force.

The $350 million deal includes eight unmanned drones that could be used to monitor terrorism in the Middle East.

U.S. State Department spokesman Mark Toner said Washington would review the incident and, if it is confirmed, raise it in the U.N. Security Council.

The Pentagon said airstrikes on al-Shabab's “Raso” training camp in Somalia killed more than 150 fighters, but the militant group disagrees.

Bombs were dropped and Hellfire missiles launched during an air assault on a training camp in Somalia, U.S. officials said Monday.