A Russian military navigator whose plane was shot down by Turkey and crashed in Syria arrived on Wednesday at an air base in Latakia province after a 12-hour rescue operation by a Syrian arm... Read more

Russia has been carrying out strikes over Syria since late September and Turkey has warned it would act if the country’s jets continued to enter its air space (AFP Photo/Sergey Venyavs... Read more

Turkish fighter jets shot down a Russian warplane near the Syrian border on Tuesday after repeated warnings over air space violations, but Moscow said it could prove the jet had not left Syr... Read more

As a Peace Corps volunteer, expert in global health and the mother of a young boy, Anita Ashok Datar devoted her life to caring for and helping others, her family said. Datar, of Takoma Park... Read more

A few days after the Paris attacks that left hundreds dead and injured, Russia confirmed that a homemade explosive device was detonated on board MetroJet Flight 9268 in October, killing all... Read more

Despite ISIS’s claims of ruling over a Islamic “caliphate” in line with Sharia law, a large number of the group’s fighters joined for reasons having little to do with... Read more

Islamic State’s official magazine carried a photo on Wednesday of a Schweppes drink it said was used to make an improvised bomb that brought down a Russian airliner over Egypt’s... Read more

Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the Belgian man French authorities believe plotted the Nov. 13 terrorist spree of bombings and mass shootings in Paris which killed at least 129 people, is dead. Senior i... Read more

Much of the world agrees that the Islamic State needs to be crushed How to Beat ISIS Excerpts from interviews with an array of international experts about how to best defeat the Islamic Stat... Read more