Sierra Leone's Vice President Samuel Sam-Sumana has placed himself in 21-day quarantine after one of his bodyguards died of Ebola.

An Egyptian court yesterday branded the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas a "terrorist" organisation, a judicial source said,

Al-Qaeda's Syria affiliate yesterday drove US-backed rebels out of a strategic northern military base in fierce fighting that left dozens dead, a monitor said.

Hundreds of female religious guides have been at the forefront of Algeria's battle against Islamic radicalisation since the civil war that devastated the North African country in the 1990s.

ISIS militants have reportedly ransacked Mosul library, burning over a hundred thousand rare manuscripts and documents spanning centuries of human learning.

A West Bank mosque was set alight in a village near Bethlehem Tuesday with anti-Arab slogans in Hebrew sprayed on a nearby wall, Palestinian witnesses said.

New Zealand's Prime Minister John Key announces plans to send 143 non-combat troops to Iraq to help the fight against Islamic State (IS) militants

Greece unveils outline summary of reforms demanded by eurozone leaders in order to secure a bailout extension

As threats in the Middle East grow, there's a pressing need in the region, Egypt's President said Sunday.

It's not unusual for men to join the fight for women's rights. But it is if they choose to wear miniskirts while they do it.

Six days ago, the trio of British girls ran away from home and flew from London to Istanbul. It's unclear where 15-year-olds Amira Abase, Shamima Begum and 16-year-old Kadiza Sultana are.

Yemen's president sought to resume his duties as head of state yetserday, holding his first public engagement with state officials since he fled house arrest in Sanaa by the Houthi group that dominates the northern half of the country.

Parts of a sickening video released by Islamic State militants that shows members of the terror group beheading 21 Coptic Christians have been faked, experts have claimed.

President Barack Obama's new Pentagon chief yesterday said the United States was seriously considering slowing the pace of a troop withdrawal from Afghanistan, as the country faces a growing Taliban insurgency.

UN investigators yesterday said they were prepared to publish secret lists of alleged war criminals in Syria to help stem an "exponential rise" in atrocities from nearly four years of war.

Qatar said yesterday it would introduce a major labour law reform to ensure thousands of workers building venues for the 2022 World Cup are paid on time, after complaints by rights groups.

Just when Washington and Nato feared they were going to be bombing ISIS on their own, the self-styled “Islamic State” has single-handedly created a new Arab military alliance to bomb the West's enemies.

For years Arabs have been effectively marginalised in Israel's political life.

Foreign fighters are flocking to Syria at an "unprecedented" rate, with more than 20,000 volunteers from around the world joining the Islamic State or other extremist groups, US intelligence officials said Tuesday.

Western governments evacuated their diplomats from Yemen yesterday as conflict deepened in the impoverished Saudi neighbour which has long been on the front line of the war against al-Qaeda.