Militants launched a gun and bomb assault in the centre of the Indonesian capital on Thursday, killing at least six people, police said, in an attack on a country that Daesh had threatened to put in its "spotlight".

In video footage published by the Pakistan Canada Association (PCA), the Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, at the time the leader of the Canadian Liberal Party, is seen wearing traditional Islamic dress of a type worn in Pakistan while delivering a speech on the value of Ramadan after Maghreb (evening prayer) with Muslims.

The video records the exact moments that two small US naval vessels were seized by Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) on Tuesday. The sailors were later released.

Jostein Nielsen, a Norwegian tourist injured in the attack on Istanbul's Sultanahmet Square on Tuesday, said that he wants to come to Istanbul again when he was asked whether he wanted to come to Turkey again. "I still haven't seen the Blue Mosque and Grand Bazaar. Of course, I would like to return," said Nielsen in the airport, after his medical treatment in Haseki Training and Research Hospital completed. "I saw one man, he was most probably the bomber. I heard a click and then a loud bang. I...

Madaya, a Syrian town near the Lebanese border under control of opposition forces, has been under blockade for 7 months. People cannot leave the region, and have almost no access to basic foodstuffs because of mines planted by Hizbullah around the town's perimeter and the Assad regime forces' intervention.While locals wait for the arrival of the aid convoy, they try to stay alive with water and salt given by the field hospital. United Nations High Commissioner's Office for Refugees Syrian Commis...

Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu left a bouquet of carnations at Istanbul's Sultanahmet Square, the scene of a suicide bombing which killed 10 foreign tourists. Davutoğlu went to Sultanahmet accompanied by his wife and German Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere.

Video of Prince Moulay Hassan of Morocco, age 12,refusing officials' attempt to kiss his hand has gone viral. In the footage, the Prince seems clearly uncomfortable when dignitaries attempt to greet him with the traditional gesture of respect for his status. Prince Hassan pulls his hand away quickly every time he greets an official in case any of them try to kiss his hand.

A Lebanese power line worker died when he was electrocuted by a high voltage line fault. The video shows the moment the burned worker hit the ground from meters above.

The Russian air campaign continues to kill civilians in Syria under the guise of fighting against Daesh. The most recent Russian airstrike, which hit a school, killed at least 17 civilians including eight students. Previously on Saturday, at least 47 people were killed and 100 others injured when Russian fighter jets bombed a residential area and marketplace in the northwest Syrian province of Idlib. In December, Russian airstrikes which hit a Qur'an course and a refugee camp left scores of peop...

Many tourists visiting Istanbul have said that they were determined not to leave the country earlier than scheduled due to the deadly explosion that rocked central Istanbul's Sultanahmet Square. "We shouldn't surrender to terrorism. I won't change my plan and leave country because of the attack," said a Colombian tourist of the suicide bombing targeting the major tourist attraction that left 10 people dead and 15 others wounded. "I would certainly extend my holiday, if I could. I am coming from ...

A young Syrian girl cried her eyes out while performing a song she dedicated to peace in her homeland during the Arabic version of The Voice programme. Nine-year-old Ghina Bou Hemdan was singing “Give us Childhood, Give us Peace" when she started crying on MBC's The Voice Kids. After a few seconds Ghina convinced the judge, singer Nancy Ajram joined the small girl on stage and encouraged her to finish the song. The remaining two judges turned their chairs around before the song finished. After t...

A Chinese tourist had to get stitches on her nose after a reticulated python bit her when she tried to kiss it during a snake show in Thailand.A video clip of the incident in Phuket shows two snake handlers holding a python up to a pair of tourists.The woman wearing a backpack leans forward to kiss the snake, when it suddenly launches at her and grabs her nose.

Witnesses heard a loud noise; “A fireball went up'' An explosion believed to be a suicide attack occurred in Istanbul's touristic district, Sultanahmet. Ten people were killed, and 15 injured in the blast. The area was cordoned off by police in case there was a second explosion. mMany ambulances and fire fighters rushed to the scene. Eyewitnesses tell of loud explosion, smoke. ''The explosion was violent. It could be heard throughout Istanbul,'' an eyewitness to the Sultanahmet explosion said t...

A fire erupted on the ground floor of a hotel under construction in the Maltepe district of Istanbul on Tuesday. There were 18 people in the building at the time the fire erupted in Gülsuyu region. Maltepe Mayor Ali Kılıç later announced from his Twitter account that all the people were eventually rescued from the building. Four workers who were affected by smoke were sent to nearby hospitals. Firefighters brought the fire under control. The cause of the fire is not clear.

The moments of panic during Sultanahmet explosion was recorded by the security cameras. The video footage shows how a man reacted to the explosion.

An explosion rocked the central Istanbul Sultanahmet square, a major tourist attraction, on Tuesday, causing some casualties. The cause of the explosion was not immediately clear. A number of policemen and ambulances were sent to the scene. The Sultanahmet district is a central tourist destination.

A tearful woman who claims to be the mother of a man shot dead by Parisian police as he tried to enter a police station wielding a meat cleaver says he was not guilty of any wrongdoing.

A man offers his T-shirt to a homeless man sitting on his own, helps him put it on in New York City, United States. The video was recorded and uploaded by a passenger on the train. In the video, a man gives his own t-shirt to a man and then later gives him a hat. The video has been viewed more than nine million times. The conversation between the two men is not audible on the video, but the passenger who recorded the video said that he heard the man ask the other if he needed a shirt and if he w...

The video footage shows some members of the Jaysh al-Mujahidin, one of the opposition groups fighting against Daesh and the Assad regime in the northern part of Aleppo, attacking Assad forces with BGM-71 TOW ("Tube-launched, Optically tracked, Wire-guided") missiles.

A video released by the United States Navy on Saturday shows the moment when an Iranian Navy ship fired unguided rockets near U.S. and French military vessels and other commercial ships in the Persian Gulf. According to a U.S. Central Command statement, rockets were fired on Dec. 26 by the Iranian Revolutionary Guards (IRCGN), which appears to be the latest in a series of attacks by Iran that are raising concerns about the rogue nation. The military command also criticized Iran for its “highly p...