The Islamic State reportedly released 19 Christian hostages on Sunday after kidnapping over 220 Assyrians last week in Syria, activist groups say.

In its largest effort against the Islamic State, Iraqi troops carried out an offensive operation this week on the terrorist group's stronghold of Tikrit.

A young woman was beaten and burned alive by an irate crowd at a market in Bauchi, Nigeria, on Sunday after she refused to be bodily searched, prompting people to suspect that she was a suicide bomber.

Ebola survivor Nancy Writebol and her husband David have decided to go back to Liberia to resume their missionary work.

The wife of a hostage killed at the hands of the Islamic State\'s recently identified \"Jihadi John\" says she wants the terrorist captured alive, rather that dying an \"honorable death\" in action.

An American atheist blogger living in Bangladesh was recently killed during a machete attack that may have been related to recent threats he received from hardline Muslims.

A recent video uploaded by the Islamic State shows militants destroying valuable Iraqi artifacts in the town of Mosul, an ancient city rich in Christian history.

Abductors of an American missionary in Nigeria are demanding ransom payment that has been reduced to $150,000 from the original amount of $300,000.

Ukraine has announced its plans for a \"heavy weapon withdrawal\" from the east as the beginning step to their recognition of a peace treaty with Russia.

Investigators have identified a well-known member of the Islamic State involved in multiple online beheading videos as a Londoner from a well-to-do family who traveled to Syria in 2012 to fight with the terrorist group.

Tensions are mounting between the U.S. and North Korea after a U.S. official said he is \"deeply concerned\" about the possible number of nuclear weapons the Asian country has.