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Migrants and refugees have been arriving in record numbers, testing the country's capacity to deal with them, officials say.

A new video shows Islamic State militants praising the alleged downing of an Airbus A321 while others walk around with bowls of candy.

A U.N. report released Monday said over 218,000 asylum-seekers crossed the Mediterranean into Europe in October.

“I’m a defense hawk," said the Republican congressman from Wisconsin, who recently succeeded John Boehner of Ohio as House speaker.

Ahmad Chalabi had reportedly helped to persuade the U.S. administration, run at the time by former president George W. Bush, to invade Iraq.

Government investigators found some inmates used tobacco to pay off Islamic extremist inmates in several U.K. prisons.

After two elections in five months, Turkey is returning to single-party rule. But many are surprised and dismayed.

Many areas of the country have been hard hit by flooding and rivers of mud after several days of rainstorms.

It was not clear when the recording was made but references to Russian aggression suggest it was made after Russia, an ally of Syrian President Bashar Assad, launched air raids against opposition groups and Islamic State in Syria on Sept. 30.

Opinion is divided in Washington, D.C., over whether President Obama's military engagement in Syria is smart.

The refugee crises stemming from these wars are expected to have added to the 60 million displaced persons in the world.

In August, a similar situation resulted in 71 refugees' freezing to death in a refrigerated truck in Austria.

The kingdom is also demanding the withdrawal of Iran, which has been intervening as well on behalf of Syrian President Bashar Assad.

The new group's announcement of its first offensive came a day after the U.S. committed to sending ground troops to train rebel fighters combating ISIS.

The beheadings apparently were carried out in retaliation over a U.S.-led raid that rescued 70 hostages of the Islamic State group in Iraq last week.

Responses included skepticism about the Obama administration's announcement.

This is, essentially, a strategy to dislodge ISIS from its Syrian headquarters. "To really make this successful, you need to have a strong degree of coordination of air and ground forces," a top analyst said.

Although special operations personnel will be deployed to the Mideast nation, the Obama administration says it has not abandoned diplomacy.

The sale comes amid a stepped up campaign against ISIS militants, following a twin suicide bombs that killed around 100 people in the country’s capital Ankara.

The arrests come as Turkey has stepped up a campaign against ISIS sympathizers across the country, following a twin bomb blast that killed some 100 people earlier this month.

The deceased were part of exiled Iranian opposition group People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran, members of the group confirmed, according to reports.