France’s interior minister has ordered the closure of four mosques that allegedly espoused a ‘radical ideology,’ the latest such shutdowns among dozens since the Nov. 13 Paris attacks nearly a year ago. A state of emergency in France allows for the closing of places of worship where the preaching risks… Read More

Britain’s High Court brought government plans for leaving the European Union screeching to a halt Thursday, ruling that the prime minister can’t trigger the U.K.’s exit from the bloc without approval from Parliament. The government said it would go to the Supreme Court to challenge the ruling, which has major… Read More

A California cabdriver convicted of funneling thousands of dollars to a terrorist organization in his home country of Somalia has been turned over to authorities in the African nation. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement says officers turned over Ahmed Nasiri Taalil Mohamud to law enforcement in Mogadishu on Tuesday. The… Read More

A court in the Central Asian nation of Kazakhstan has sentenced a man to death for killing 10 people in an Islamic extremist attack in the country’s largest city earlier this year. The court in Almaty on Wednesday found that 27-year-old Ruslan Kulekbayev was driven by “religious conviction” in the… Read More

Hundreds of rescuers were struggling Tuesday to find 15 coal miners still trapped a day after a gas explosion killed 18 of their colleagues in western China. Whether the 15 are alive was not known more than 24 hours after the blast ripped through the privately owned Jinshangou mine in… Read More

Iraq’s special forces entered the outskirts of Mosul on Tuesday and were advancing toward its more urban center despite fierce resistance by Islamic State group fighters who hold the city, an Iraqi general said. It was the first time Iraqi troops have set foot in the city, Iraq’s second largest,… Read More

Italy’s premier pledged Monday to find temporary housing for all those displaced by a series of powerful earthquakes in a central mountainous region, as the nation’s strongest temblor in 36 years pushed those needing assistance to more than 15,000. Sunday morning’s quake with a magnitude 6.6 caused no deaths or… Read More

Troops shot and killed a man with explosives boldly showing strapped to his torso Sunday, as he tried to enter a refugee camp in northeastern Maiduguri city where another suicide bomber killed five people a day earlier. The Sunday morning bombing is the fifth explosion in three weeks in Maiduguri,… Read More