The convicted California scam artist behind a crude anti-Islam film that stoked protests against the U.S. across the Muslim world was sent back to jail for a year on Wednesday over probation violations stemming from his role in the video. In a tightly guarded federal courtroom in Los Angeles, Mark Basseley Youssef admitted to using […]

The incumbent president has captured at least 303 electoral votes – more than the majority of 270 required for victory in Tuesday’s quadrennial election.

A suicide bomber rammed his explosive-filled car into soldiers outside an army base near Baghdad on Tuesday, killing 31 people and injuring tens more in one of the worst attacks this year on the country’s military.

US President Barack Obama and his Republican challenger Mitt Romney are wrapping up their campaigns, hours ahead of an election which polls suggest will tip in Obama’s favour. Just after midnight on Tuesday, polls opened in the tiny northeastern villages of Dixville Notch and Hart’s Location, in the swing-state of New Hampshire. The vote was […]

Sharp disagreements arose Sunday on the first day of a Syrian opposition conference meant to forge a more cohesive leadership that the international community says is necessary before it will boost its support for those trying to overthrow President Bashar Assad.

At least 50 Syrian army soldiers have been killed by a suicide car bomb in the central province of Hama and at least 20 rebel fighters were killed in an air strike in the northwest province of Idlib, activists have said.

An airstrike by American forces in central Afghanistan has killed at least five people as anti-US sentiments are rising over the loss of civilian lives at the hands of foreign forces.

US President Barack Obama and his Republican challenger, Mitt Romney, have made a frenetic rush through four battleground states each on their second-to-last day of campaigning ahead of a close election.

A car bomb exploded in the southeastern province of Hakkari on Sunday as a police vehicle was passing by, killing one person and wounding 16 others.

Hajj 2012 was one of the most successful Muslim pilgrimage seasons despite the enormous number of close to 4 million pilgrims, said on Sunday Saudi Prince Khalid Al-Faisal, Governor of Mecca Region and Chairman of Central Hajj Committee.