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ISIS likely is able to make fake Syrian passports, and security officials say it's difficult to pick them out.

The teen-aged boy was found in an extremely weak condition as he was severely dehydrated and had suffered a crushed leg.

Government forces expect to dislodge Islamic State militants from the western Iraqi city of Ramadi within days, state television said Wednesday.

Anonymous has blamed Turkey for supporting ISIS militants by buying oil from the terrorist group.

France is seeking to form a coalition with European allies to mitigate the rising threat of ISIS in Libya, a French newspaper reported.

A Russian court issued an arrest warrant in absentia for Kremlin critic and former oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky.

Chiranuch Premchaiporn, editor of the Prachatai news website, was convicted in 2012 for failing to remove online comments against the king.

Rayani Air adheres to Islamic laws, such as a ban on alcohol and pork, and a strict dress code for female crew members.

Authorities are investigating the cause of the explosion, and if it was a terrorist attack.

Chinese official media have labeled worker activists criminals as the country's slowing economic growth rate leads to record numbers of strikes.

Russia and India have held an annual bilateral summit, hosted alternately by Moscow and New Delhi, since 2000.

Yassin Salhi, who worked as a driver and deliveryman at a factory, was charged late June with the murder of his boss Herve Cornara.

Australia also deported a suspected French extremist who arrived in the country two days after last month's attacks in Paris.

The decision follows widespread public outrage after the immigration department initially denied visas to Hassan Ali's family members.

The new survey, which shows front-runners Grace Poe and Jejomar Binay tied at 26 percent, presents a different picture from polls released in the past two days.

In a 194-55 vote Tuesday, the European nation's parliament voted in favor of same-sex civil unions. But critics said the bill doesn't go far enough.

The service members were killed near Bagram air base, one of the main bases for the remaining 9,800 U.S. troops in Afghanistan.

Nefarious people in Europe have made $10 billion or more since 2000, maybe much more, the International Organization for Migration reported.

Nearly 90 percent of Arabs disagree with the Islamic State group, a poll suggests, indicating that its backing has weakened further since last year.

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"It's so heartwarming to see the courage and resilience they can show in the face of persecution," said Lisa Daftari, a journalist who started the page.

Muslims generally celebrate the birth of the Prophet Muhammad on the 12th day of the third month of the Islamic calendar, called Rabi’ al-Awwal.

As giant manufacturing hubs in China grapple with a slowdown in orders, migrant workers are struggling to find jobs — and worries are deepening about growth in the world’s second-largest economy.

The French government has decided the proposal to strip French nationals of their citizenship would be too divisive to succeed as a change to the country's constitution.

Japan reported seeing four Chinese coast guard ships entering its contiguous waters near the disputed Senkaku Island chain.

The announcement comes as Iran prepares to see sanctions lifted — and the two countries move to improve their trade relations.

The number of people displaced by war — primarily from Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan — is the highest on the continent since the 1990s, the U.N. says.

Mining giant BHP Billiton also raised the death toll from November's accident to 17 and said it will continue to relocate displaced people.

The government's projection was more optimistic than the Bank of Japan forecast, which put real GDP growth at 1.4 percent for 2016.