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Military vehicles carrying government troops drive along a main highway of Pantar town, Lanao Del Norte, as they travel to reinforce Marawi city, southern Philippines May 24, 2017. A Philippine Roman Catholic church leader says a priest and several churchgoers have been taken hostage from a...

Arshid Qureshi, a suspected ISIS recruiter allegedly linked to controversial preacher Zakir Naik's foundation, was arrested in Navi Mumbai on Wednesday. Arshid is alleged to have brainwashed youngsters in Kerala and influenced them to join the ISIS. He is believed to have been working with...

Former Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh said there was no difference between Saudi Arabian authorities and extremist groups such as al-Qaeda and Daesh (also known as ISIL). In the aftermath of thousands of Yemeni civilians’ deaths at the hands of the Saudi-led coalition, Yemen’s ex-president...

The alleged attacker (pictured), now aged 15, was said to have been radicalised at the age of seven A teenaged female ISIS fanatic who nearly killed a policewoman in a knife attack in Germany last week was radicalised at the age of seven, it has been revealed. The grammar school girl...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday said his country had deported one of the Brussels suicide bombers this past summer, but the man was subsequently freed in the Netherlands because investigators couldn’t establish that he had any links to terror groups. While Mr. Erdogan didn’t...

After over a millennium, the Zoroastrian faith is returning to its original habitat. The Ministry of Religion in the Iraqi Kurdistan capital Erbil has registered the religion, locally known as Zardashti, and suggested to the Kurdish government the ancient faith should be given its own...

Whether a person is a Shia or a Sunni Muslim in Iraq can now be, quite literally, a matter of life and death. As the militant group the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, or IS, has seized vast territories in western and northern Iraq, there have been frequent accounts of fighters' capturing...