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Social media has been a central focus for ISIS to recruit, share their experiences and show off their triumphs. However, US intel, specifically airmen, have been avidly searching across social media to track down ISIS whereabouts to actively respond.

Myanmar should unconditionally release a writer jailed for insulting Buddhism or risk creating a new generation of political prisoners, the UN human rights office said.

The arrested militants have confessed that the attack on the Park Palace Guesthouse, frequented by foreigners, was plotted by the Haqqani network commander Qari Abdullah who is based in Peshawar, the capital of Pakistan's Khyber- Pakhtunkhwa province.

China's ruling Communist Party has said the intense anti-corruption campaign in which several top leaders and military officials were indicted has hurt the organisation and damaged its reputation, amid signs of the anti-graft drive slowing down.

The planes' surveillance equipment is generally used without a judge's approval, and the FBI said the flights are used for specific, ongoing investigations.

Chinese President Xi Jinping has ordered that no efforts be spared in rescue work and Premier Li Keqiang was heading to the scene of the accident in central Hubei province, the official Xinhua news agency said.

China's capital on Monday began imposing the country's toughest ban on indoor smoking in hopes of stemming a looming health crisis.

Iran has emphasised that it would not allow International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors to have access to its military sites under the additional protocol to the NPT.

The island is about 160 km (100 miles) south of Kyushu Electric Power's Sendai nuclear plant on Japan's southernmost main island of Kyushu.

All major spiritual and Yoga organisations like Art of Living have joined the campaign, OVBI said adding that more than 50 organisations have joined the countrywide campaign to spread the awareness about Yoga.

Waugh was a first-year law student at the Georgetown University at the time his best friend killed him.

Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert was sentenced Monday to eight months in prison for unlawfully accepting money from a US supporter, capping the dramatic downfall of a man who only years earlier led the country and hoped to bring about a historic...

An Egyptian court acquitted 17 people on Saturday over taking part in an unsanctioned demonstration earlier this year that saw a young mother shot to death in downtown Cairo.

An Islamic State group suicide bomber attacked a Shiite mosque in Sunni-ruled Saudi Arabia, killing 21 people and wounding 81 in an assault that threatens to fan sectarian tensions.

The released material included a variety of declassified documents, a list of English language books recovered from the compound and material published by other militant groups.

All of the victims were gang members. Several other bikers were injured.