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Pakistan militants who have pledged allegiance to Islamic State said on Sunday they had attacked a paramilitary checkpoint along the Afghan border, in the first such assault claimed by a former faction of the Taliban in several months.

Kurdish militants detonated a car bomb near a police checkpoint in southeast Turkey early on Sunday, killing two police officers and wounding five others, security sources said, marking the latest casualties in the region's worst violence in two decades.

The 12 convicted were accused of joining ISIS and plotting to attack security personnel.

Many refugees who enter Hungary claim to be younger than 18 to gain government protection. One doctor is charged with finding out the truth.

Jeremy Corbyn won the leadership of the U.K.'s Labour party Saturday amid concerns that his platform is too left-wing to win broad electoral support.

Egypt's army launched its so-called Martyr's Rights operation last Monday around the Sinai towns of El-Arish, Rafah and Sheikh Zuweid.

Every day, another 300 refugees arrive in Berlin. Despite the lengthy waits they face, they're happy to be there.

Two dozen Democrats broke with the president and joined Republicans in voting against the deal. The vote was largely a symbolic one.

Hungary previously said stronger immigration laws there would take effect Sept. 15, and EU states have continued to look for financial solutions to the crisis.

Central European countries have rejected Brussels' quota proposal to take in refugees, complicating any unified response.

The statement has met mixed reaction online, but there has been not been confirmation from the Gaza-based militant group’s leader.

ISIS militants killed two Japanese hostages earlier this year.

As the refugee crisis continues to rock Europe, the U.S. has stepped up to take more Syrian refugees.

The embattled newsman will return to television Sept. 22 as a breaking-news anchor.

The number of working-age people in the European Union has been shrinking compared with those retiring.

Islamic State used at least two car bombs in its latest assault on the air base near the city of Deir al-Zor.

Norwegian Prime Minister Erna Solberg confirmed that one of the hostages was a Norwegian man held in Syria.

Donald Trump, Sarah Palin and Sen. Ted Cruz headlined a protest Wednesday denouncing the nuclear deal with Iran.

“Similar to ourselves, they have aspirations for university, for careers," said one aid worker.

The far-right leaders have accused Muslim refugees of posing a threat to France's national security.

"We don't recognize this caliphate," Ayman al-Zawahri said of the Islamic State group, before adding he would cooperate with them.