Islamic State militants seized Syrian government-controlled territory in the eastern Syrian city of Deir al-Zor on Tuesday, a war monitor and a news agency affiliated with the ultra-hardline Islamist group said.

A total of 26 tourist companies announced they are organizing pilgrimage trips for Coptic Christians from Egypt to Jerusalem despite of the ban imposed by the Orthodox Church since 1979.

There are signs that more Islamic State inspired militants have been sent to Belgium and Europe, Belgian authorities said on Tuesday, maintaining the country’s threat status at the second-highest level.

German police arrested five people near Dresden on Tuesday who they suspected of forming a far-right militant group and preparing attacks on asylum seekers using explosives, the public prosecutor’s office said.

Taliban militants attacked an office of Afghanistan’s main security agency with a suicide car bomb and gunfire on Tuesday, killing several people and wounding over 200, in their first assault on the capital since declaring a spring offensive.

At least three policemen were killed and eight others injured in an attack on their vehicle in the city of Sheikh Zuwaid, North Sinai, officials said Tuesday.

A total of 16 defendants received sentences ranging between 10 to 15 years jail over charges of inciting violence in al-Shohadaa square in Helwan July 26, 2013, southern Cairo, Youm7 reported.

Syrian rebel groups announced a new battle against government forces on Monday, a sign of escalating violence that has undermined a ceasefire deal and threatens to derail UN-led peace talks.

With Italian lessons and strolls around Rome, the 12 Syrian asylum seekers Pope Francis brought back with him from Lesbos are settling into new lives, their hosts said Monday.

Boko Haram fighters on Monday attacked Nigerian soldiers in the northeast of the country, where the jihadists have been waging a seven-year insurgency, the army said.

Two people were killed and 11 injured in a bomb blast in Arish, North Sinai, on Monday. According to security sources, an explosive device was planted by terrorists on Khazan Street, in the city of Arish.

Egypt's Court of Cassation overturned on Sunday three-year jail sentences for 17 Al-Azhar students convicted of rioting in December 2013.

The United States and its allies have conducted 26 strikes against Islamic State in Iraq and Syria since Saturday, the coalition leading the operations said in a statement on Sunday.

Founders of an anti-niqab (face veil) initiative will be investigated for “threatening national security and societal peace,” according to an attorney-general decision Sunday.

Jordanian security forces mistakenly raided the headquarters of the kingdom's largest Muslim Brotherhood group on Sunday after confusing it with the offices of an outlawed organization, the government said.

Pope Francis spoke emotionally Sunday of his meeting a day earlier with migrants on the Greek island of Lesbos, which culminated with him taking three Syrian families back to the Vatican.

A prominent media advocacy group on Wednesday called on Turkish authorities to protect journalists after a Syrian reporter was gunned down in broad daylight by Islamic State militants in southeastern Turkey — the fourth such attack in six months.

The body of a conscript and four others injured were taken to an Arish hospital after their vehicle passed over a roadside bomb, Youm7 reported Wednesday.

Islamic State group militants (IS) have seized a string of opposition-held villages in Syria's Aleppo province near the Turkish border, a monitoring group said Thursday.

A Belgium appeals court on Thursday sentenced top Islamist militants recruiter Khalid Zerkani to 15 years in prison after convicting him of enlisting key suspects in the Brussels and Paris attacks.

The case presented by the Iranian judiciary was simple: In the southern province of Fars, Fatemeh Salbehi suffocated her husband after drugging him, a capital crime in the Islamic Republic.