Notorious terrorist Carlos the Jackal is back in court in Paris to appeal his life sentence for a series of bomb attacks in France some 30 years ago that killed 11 people. Venezuelan Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, 63, was also convicted of a triple murder...

As the North Atlantic warms up, mackerel are moving north -- into the nets of Icelandic fishermen. Angry European Union countries accuse Iceland of overfishing its new catch, but the country says its policies do more to protect fish stocks than Eu...

A group of young Muslim women who created and star in the satirical Danish television program "It's Still Veiling," which deals with Muslim issues and prejudices, have received death threats from those who accuse them of mocking their religion and...

French MP Elie Aboud shocked and infuriated some of his collegues when he raised the issue of the "black triangle," signaling "danger," he insisted, during the legislative debate on gay marriage. The Nazis forced gays to wear pink triangles, and t...

South African President Jacob Zuma scored a thumping victory in an ANC leadership contest on Tuesday with 2,986 out of 3, 977 party member votes, making him the odds-on favourite to retain the presidency after general elections in 2014. This come...

Two Syrian military aircraft downed in two days -- seemingly by ground-to-air missiles -- changes everything, says Joshua Landis of SyriaComment.com, who believes the growing dominance of the Syrian Free Army in the north of the country may force ...

Israeli legislative elections are due to take place in two months' time. Who would benefit from the latest hostilities -- electorally speaking -- on the Israeli side? Gallagher Fenwick reports from Gaza.

Veteran Algerian diplomat Lakhdar Brahimi is being touted as the new joint UN-Arab League special envoy for Syria, diplomats said late Thursday. Brahimi would replace Kofi Annan, who announced his resignation citing lack of international support. ...

In Tunisia, streams of young men are leaving to fight in Syria's civil war, on a crusade to defeat Bashar al-Assad. It's hard to verify exact numbers, but many are killed in combat or taken prisoner. Some have been gone weeks, others haven't been ...

Two Syrian rebel groups -- the Free Syrian Army and Liwa al-Islam -- have both claimed responsibility for a bombing at the Syrian National Security Ministry in Damascus that killed the defense minister Dawoud Rajha and President Bashar al-Assad's ...