Payments will be made by the State Department's 'Rewards for Justice' program that usually offers cash for information leading to the whereabouts of wanted terrorists. This is the first time the program has been used to target a financial network.
Both Pakistan and Iran say militant groups operate from bases on the other country's soil, sometimes carrying out deadly cross-border attacks.
U.N. refugee agency says that fighting for capital has displaced over 32,000 people as clashes threaten to ignite a new civil war in Libya.
As Revolutionary Guards threaten to close Strait of Hormuz, Iran arch-rival Saudi Arabia announces it will coordinate with other oil producers to prevent shortage.
Days after U.S. designates elite group a foreign terrorist organization, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei appoints Hossein Salami to replace Mohammad Ali Jafari as head of Revolutionary Guard Corps.
Nationwide referendum comes amid unprecedented crackdown on dissent, in which government of President Abdel-Fatah el-Sissi has arrested thousands and rolled back freedoms secured eight years ago.
Converts say experience of war, onslaught of group claiming to fight for Islam pushed them toward new faith. Critics accuse them of seeking personal gain such as financial help from Christian groups, jobs and enhanced prospects of emigration to Europe.
"The cell was arrested in Chad, a country in which had been visited by the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu earlier this year," i24NEWS report reaveals.
Iraq has traditionally been closer to the Shiite superpower Iran than to the Sunni Saudis • Riyadh courting Baghdad in an attempt to block Iranian influence in the Middle East.
Team from Greece is photographing thousands of fragile manuscripts, including some of the earliest copies of the Christian gospels, in Egypt's Sinai Desert, where Islamists have destroyed countless cultural artifacts.
