Canada is well-equipped to become the North American hub for Islamic banking, according a recent study.

CNS News | “This year, the joy of Christmas will not be celebrated.”

RT | The Jobar neighborhood of Damascus is the epicenter of some of the fiercest fighting in Syria.

RT | The Anonymous hacktivist group has taken responsibility for a powerful cyber-attack on the Turkish sector of the internet last week.

Delayed political fuse from years of economic depression and mass unemployment.

The Geneva-based intergovernmental organization says the million mark was crossed Monday.

Law’s new draft includes provision that media and social media cannot report on details of terror activities that might lead to imitation…

RT | Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) has released footage of their security forces on the streets of Sirte in Libya – the so-called ‘Islamic Police’.

London Guardian | Tiny but symbolic deployment of 10 British troops in non-combat role comes as residents say town has been almost overrun by Taliban.

Following today’s vote, Greece is set to change “PA [Palestinian Authority]” to “Palestine” in its official documents.

Sky News | More than one million migrants and refugees have entered Europe this year, according to an intergovernmental organisation.

UK Mirror | The mum was arrested and her four children taken into care after they were stopped boarding a flight to Turkey and the kids were taken into care.

RT | Members of the Ukrainian neo-Nazi Azov volunteer battalion and their ultranationalist civilian sympathizers have conducted a torchlit procession.

RT | Afghan opium is being processed into high-grade heroin.

Germans, facing an influx of more than one million asylum seekers from Africa, Asia and the Middle East, are rushing to arm themselves.