Middle East

European governments are losing track of significant numbers of children who have entered the continent without their parents as refugees from war-torn areas in the Middle East and beyond.

Convicted terrorists sit atop the social pecking order in many facilities, using jail time to plot new attacks or groom petty criminals for jihad.

French prosecutors sought preliminary terrorism charges against the cousin of one of the Islamic radicals who killed a French priest in Normandy last week, the second person to face indictment as part of the plot.

Chronically low crude prices are disrupting a critical financial lifeline across Asia and depriving economies of much-needed hard currency.

Islamic State claimed twin attacks on oil and gas facilities in northern Iraq that killed at least five local employees, the latest in northern Iraq by the extremist group, which relies on oil for a significant portion of its revenue.

Thousands of Indian workers in Saudi Arabia haven’t been paid for months, prompting the Indian government to hand out food to hungry workers.

A Chinese consortium led by Shanghai Giant Network Technology and including a private-equity arm set up by Alibaba founder Jack Ma has agreed to pay $4.4 billion for an Israeli games business.

Pope Francis prayed that God would spare the world from a “devastating wave of terrorism.”

The vote effectively disbands the government of Prime Minister Habib Essid, a U.S.-trained agricultural economist. The move is a mark of the instability that has bedeviled the North African country since it kicked off a wave of pro-democracy rebellions across the Arab world in 2011.

Some of the worst accidents involving recreational hot air balloons

State Education Agency was prompted by a series of complaints filed on behalf of the Turkish government

A back-and-forth between President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and a top U.S. general is laying bare sensitivities between the two North Atlantic Treaty Organization allies after the failed military coup in Turkey

France looked for other ISIS followers who may have been involved in planning a priest’s killing while the French prime minister admitted there were failures in tracking the two known terrorist suspects before they attacked.

An airstrike by the U.S.-led coalition killed about 25 civilians late Thursday in an Islamic State-held town in northern Syria, according to the Syrian opposition and activist monitoring groups.

Sam Sacks reviews “War Porn” by Roy Scranton; “Compartment No. 6” by Rosa Liksom; and “Still Here” by Lara Vapnyar.

Juggling terror threats from Islamic State and Kurdish separatists, Turkey’s vast intelligence service struggled to make sense of clues before plotters sprung to action on July 15.

U.S. oil rebounded from bear-market territory, but Brent stayed down as the market has become divided by bargain buyers and renewed concerns of oversupply.

A series of violent attacks has highlighted the security implications of the massive influx of migrants—and the challenge of getting people deemed not in need of protection to actually leave.

Khizr Khan, whose son was killed in Iraq in 2004, took on Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump at the Democratic National Convention, offering to lend the GOP nominee his copy of the Constitution.