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Rivalry between jihadist groups fighting in Syria has sharply divided global militant ranks once loosely allied under Al-Qaeda, sparking infighting which experts say has hampered efforts to topple President Bashar al-Assad.

The Central Spiritual Board of Muslims of Russia is outraged by shameless lies and double standards of politicians over developments in Ukraine, the head of the board, the country's Supreme Mufti Talgat Tadzhuddin said in a sermon marking the holiday of Eid al-Fitr on Monday.

As Syrian peace talks in Geneva appear to flounder, President Barack Obama on Friday vowed to apply more pressure on the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

US Secretary of State John Kerry slammed Russia on Monday for "enabling" Syria's President Bashar al-Assad to stay in power in the war-torn country, after Geneva peace talks broke off without result at the weekend.

Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir has expressed concern about instability in neighbouring South Sudan and other volatile states in the region, official media reported Sunday.

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi arrived in Algiers on Wednesday for his first trip abroad since being elected in May, official media reported.

When Egypt's military chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi announced in a television address the overthrow of Islamist president Mohamed Morsi, an ultraconservative Salafi party official sat by his side, making an unlikely ally.

Tehran, YJC. Reports say that Lebanese security forces have arrested Majid al-Majid

TEHRAN, YJC .-- Haron Monis, a 49-year-old man who was gunned down after taking dozens of people hostage in a cafe in Sydney for 16 hours, had expressed his allegiance to Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) Leader Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi in a public statement on November 18 Fars news agency reported.

From the hills of the Hindu Kush on August 23, 1996, Osama Bin Laden told the United States he was coming for them. One can only wonder what the world would be like today if we had taken him seriously

Donald Trump spokeswoman Katrina Pierson makes a new history blunder on television in a recent CNN interview on Saturday. On the program, Pierson discussed Trump's recent comments referring to President Obama as the founder of ISIS. Following the video, she essentially corroborated his claim by mentioning that "after 2007, al-Qaeda was essentially in ashes."

There are many solutions various governments have written into policies in counter-terrorism efforts as terrorists continue to dig their heals into a moral high ground that has consumed lives in many parts of the world. Many who study religious terrorism understand that the battleground was not drawn by religions, but by the interpretation of those whose fever for fanaticism prevails. In response, this ferocity has called upon itself moderates and centrists who want to write an epitaph to such self-righteousness, who want to see the end of the bloodshed....

BEIRUT: Russian warplanes have mounted a new wave of air strikes since Thursday night in northwestern and western Syria, a Syrian military source and state TV said on Friday. The source said the 18 air strikes were in the provinces of Idlib, Hama and Aleppo and were against Islamic State targets.