Egypt's Islamic affiliate said it fired out on Thursday a rocket at the Egyptian naval vessel in the North Sinai's Mediterranean coast.
Two Malaysians have been arrested for suspected link with Islamic State (IS) and plot to launch attacks in the country, police said.
An all-clear was given after no evidence was found about the earlier reported shootings at the U.S. Navy Yard in Washington D.C., the site of a rampage taking place in September 2013, said authorities Thursday.
A wave of attacks by a local Islamic State (IS) affiliate in Egypt's Sinai on Wednesday have received wide condemnation from the international community.
While terror attacks in three different parts of the world on Friday highlight the grave danger the world is facing now, some Western media's bias against Muslims is equally dangerous because such prejudice can only ferment hatred and polarization.
Kenyan security personnel have arrested two Tanzanian nationals as they attempted to sneak into the country to reportedly recruit young women to join Somalia based militant group Al-Shabaab.
The Chadian air force carried out strikes Wednesday on a Boko Haram bases in Nigeria, in retaliation for a double suicide bombing attacks in N'Djamena, according to a statement.
Radical Islamist group Islamic State (IS) has claimed responsibility for a gun attack in the U.S. state of Texas, which indicates the group has breached the walls of U.S. security by using social media to galvanize its sympathizers to launch terror attacks.
South African President Jacob Zuma on Thursday warned "those behind the ongoing xenophobic violence" to immediately stop or face the law.
Norway's intelligence service said Monday it must be prepared for possible terrorist attacks as more people have traveled from the Nordic country to fight in Syria and Iraq than it knows, local news media VG reported.
The overall situation in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region remains stable and controllable despite terror attacks, a senior official said Tuesday.
Thousands of residents of Nigerien towns of Bosso and Diffa have fled from their homes after five days of deadly attacks carried out by the Boko Haram islamist sect, official sources said Tuesday.
At least 99 people were killed and 104 others injured in 16 bomb blasts across Pakistan during the first month of 2015.
Nigerian militant group Boko Haram killed five people in two separate attacks in the northeastern city of Gombe on Sunday, witnesses said.
The Islamic State (IS) militant group on Monday called on the Muslims to commit more attacks in Europe.
A summit on fight against "violent extremism" will be held in Washington DC, after deadly terrorist attacks happened in Paris, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said here on Sunday.
At least 824 people were killed and 2,339 others injured in 372 bomb attacks, including 26 suicide bombings, that occurred across Pakistan during 2014, according to official statistics.