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Canada

Kidnapped US-Canadian couple return to Canada with family

A kidnapped U.S. Canadian couple held hostage in Pakistan for nearly five years has returned to Canada.

Russia

Islamist group claim responsibility for St Petersburg metro attack

A group called the Imam Shamil Battalion has claimed responsibility for a metro bombing in the Russian city of St. Petersburg that killed 16 people.

Somalia

US-Somali national inaugurated as new president of Somalia

Amid tight security Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed has been inaugurated as the new President of Somalia.

Syria

Senior al-Qaida operative killed in US airstrikes, Pentagon

In total 11 al-Qaida members were killed in airstrikes in Syria, the Pentagon announced.

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Yemen

US commandos launch major raid on al Qaeda stronghold

At least one American soldier has been killed and three others wounded during a raid against an al Qaeda stronghold in central Yemen, the US military says.

Mali

Al Qaeda-linked group claims Mali's deadliest suicide attack

A group linked to al Qaeda’s North African affiliate has said it carried out a suicide bombing at a military camp in northern Mali earlier on Wednesday that killed dozens of people and injured over…

Mali

Tuareg militant leader killed in car explosion outside UN base in Mali

Cheick Ag Aoussa was the number two in the High Council for the Unity of Azawad, one of many armed groups in the country.

USA

15 years after 9/11: the US remembers

New York, Washington and Pennsylvania have fallen silent to commemorate the 15th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks in the US.

Iraq

Al Qaeda 15 years after 9/11

Fifteen years on from the 9/11 attacks and more than five years after the death of Osama bin Laden what has happened to Al Qaeda?

Syria

Nusra Front militant group says it's ending ties with al Qaeda

Al Qaeda’s powerful Syrian branch, the Nusra Front, says it is cutting ties with the global militant network.

Turkey

Journalists freed in Syria return home to Spain

Three Spanish freelance journalists who were kidnapped in Syria last July have returned home on Sunday after being released. On Saturday it was

World News

Sixteen people die in attack on Ivory Coast beach resort

Al Qaeda gunmen attack Grand Bassam resort 16 people are killed including four Europeans All six gunmen are killed by Ivorian Special Forces

Mali

Mali: 'Irreparable cultural damage' caused by Ahmad Al-Mahdi Al-Faqi - ICC

The destruction of religious sites in the ancient Malian city of Timbuktu has caused irreparable damage to Africa’s cultural heritage, prosecutors at

Burkina Faso

Burkina Faso siege: witnesses describe moment gunmen entered

Witnesses to the Ouagadougou attack say suspected Islamist militants shot indiscriminately at them and did not speak French – the national language

Burkina Faso

Security forces in Burkina Faso storm hotel to free hostages taken by suspected Islamic militants - reports of 20 dead

Security forces in the West African country of Burkina Faso have launched an assault on a hotel in the capital where a number of hostages were being

Syria

What the ceasefire means for Homs

Buses carrying insurgents leave the Syrian city of Homs Part of rare local ceasefire deal Priority given to women, children, seriously wounded

Lebanon

Prisoner swap frees Lebanese soldiers and ISIL leader's ex-wife

16 Lebanese soldiers and policemen held captive by Al Qaeda’s Syrian wing, the Nusra Front, have been released. The group was kidnapped during an

Mali

Mali: a state of emergency and national mourning

Mali has been placed under a ten-day state of emergency after hundreds were taken hostage at a luxury hotel in its capital city. At least 20 people

France

Bush vs Hollande: can you tell their speeches apart?

They are two speeches made in the wake of two terrorist atrocities. But while the circumstances may have been similar, the two presidents who made

Afghanistan

Afghan Hazara mourn, demand government guarantee security

The streets of Kabul rang with cries of ‘Down with terror!’, as thousands of Afghan minority Hazara- filled the streets, angrily demanding the