Before Islamic State fighters gave up control of a northern Syrian stronghold less than a week ago, they left behind explosive dangers including booby traps in hospitals, an American aid worker told The Daily Beast on Tuesday.
A prominent Islamist preacher in Britain faces up to 10 years in prison after he was convicted in July of inviting support for ISIS – a verdict that was only made public Tuesday after a judicially-imposed reporting ban.
A speedboat collided with a tourist vessel off the Greek island of Aegina near Athens Tuesday, killing four people, including a child, and injuring at least another four, the coast guard said.
Airstrikes launched by the United States have hit an Islamic State group vehicle and four militant positions in Libya, raising to 48 the number of U.S. airstrikes against the extremist group since Washington launched its anti-IS campaign in Libya on Aug. 1.
A British woman who sent her life savings to a con man she met on an online dating site has been convicted of money-laundering for unwittingly passing money to him from other victims.
Greece's prime minister is vowing to exhaust diplomatic and, if necessary, legal means to wrest reparations from Germany for its brutal occupation of the country in World War II.
An Istanbul court has ordered a pro-Kurdish newspaper to close down for allegedly engaging in "terrorist propaganda." The court said Tuesday that Ozgur Gundem newspaper acted as the "media organ" of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK.
A Bulgarian court has ruled that a French citizen with family ties to the attack on the Charlie Hebdo satirical newspaper in Paris will be extradited to France to face terror charges.
Prosecutors say a Swiss man who attacked passengers aboard a train with a knife and a burning liquid, killing one and wounding five, didn't know any of his victims, according to the investigation so far.
Even 71 years after she last typed a letter for one of the most infamous monsters of the Adolf Hitler regime, a former secretary for Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels’ refers to the murder of six million people as “the matter of the Jews” and said telling her life story has nothing to do with “clearing my conscience.”
Separatists say Russian troops have joined their troops in the breakaway republic of Trans-Dniester for joint military exercises for the second time this month.
Pakistan's Interior Minister says a blacklisted American citizen who entered Pakistan earlier this month has been deported again after being interrogated.
China's Cabinet has approved an initiative that will give foreign investors more access to Chinese stocks by linking exchanges in the mainland city of Shenzhen and Hong Kong.