President Barack Obama will begin laying out a strategy this week to defeat Islamic State militants in the Middle East, meeting with congressional leaders tomorrow and giving a speech on Wednesday, the eve of the 13th anniversary of the deadliest terrorist attack on US soil.

Cities in America and western Europe are being eyed as Islamic State (IS) militants’ future targets and President Barack Obama needs to take action, two top politicians have warned.

Barack Obama is going public to try to convince war-weary Americans that limited strikes against Syria are needed for the United States’ long-term safety.

Syrian president Bashar al-Assad denied that he was behind a chemical weapons attack on the Syrian people, as the White House yesterday pressed ahead with the uphill effort of persuading Congress to approve a military strike to punish Assad.

The US, China and Iran are firing the first shots in a new type of warfare being fought from the keyboard instead of the battlefield, writes John Hearne

Protesters angered by an anti-Islam film have stormed the US Embassy compound in Yemen’s capital, two days after America’s ambassador was gunned down at the US Consulate in Libya.

The US government is investigating whether the attack on the US Consulate in Libya in which America’s ambassador was gunned down was a planned terrorist strike to mark the anniversary of the September 11 2001 attacks rather than a spontaneous mob enraged over an anti-Islam YouTube video.

Details have emerged of how the CIA fooled al Qaida over the terror network’s plot to bring down a plane with a nearly-undetectable bomb.

Liverpool Victoria bolstered its general insurance arm today with a £150m (€186.5m) takeover deal for the owner of insurance broker Hero.

Wildlife officers shot 41 pilot whales beached on New Zealand’s South Island, ending their suffering after the sea was deemed to rough to try to rescue them.

A so-called “cheeseburger bill” that would prevent obese people suing the fast food industry has been passed by the US House of Representatives.

America’s Republican-controlled House of Representatives has voted to shield fast-food chains from lawsuits that blame them for making people fat.

The US House of Representatives yesterday voted overwhelmingly to extend the USA Patriot Act, America’s main anti-terrorism tool, just hours after television news beamed images of an attempted bombing attack in London.