Congo's president has chosen a new prime minister from an opposition party as part of his plan to create a coalition government instead of holding elections before the end of the year.
Pakistan's counterterrorism service says authorities have arrested eight alleged Islamic State militants who were taking orders from commanders in Syria.
Kosovo police say they prevented an extremist attack against the Israeli national soccer team that played a World Cup qualifier in neighboring Albania.
Layers of hastily erected barricades built from rubble and twisted metal trace Mosul's eastern frontline where Iraqi forces and Islamic State group fighters are facing off in the dense neighborhoods and narrow alleyways of the country's second largest city.
An Iran-backed terrorist group operating in Syria is parading around the war-torn country in U.S.-made armored vehicles affixed with antiaircraft guns – and one of the most frightening aspects is how U.S. officials and analysts can't agree on how the extremists got their hands on the American war machines.
A senior official says Turkey would no longer have a prime minister under constitutional reforms the government is seeking to usher in a presidential system.
Egypt has pardoned 82 young detainees, including a former TV host convicted of "defaming religious symbols." The names of those pardoned Thursday by President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi were compiled by a committee he set up to examine the cases of young detainees who had not been involved in violence.
King Felipe VI has urged lawmakers to try to win back public confidence following the "unease and disquiet" he said was generated in the 10-month deadlock following two inconclusive elections.