DAVID KIRKPATRICK

Across the Western world, a new breed of right-leaning populists from Donald Trump in the Republican presidential primary to Marine Le Pen in France and Viktor Orban in Hungary are surging in popularity by capitalizing on a climate of insecurity.

Defying Western efforts to confront the Islamic State on the battlefield, the group has evolved in its reach and organizational ability, with increasingly dangerous hubs outside Iraq and Syria and strategies that call for using spectacular acts of violence against civilians.

A sound heard in the last second of a 23-minute recording is being scrutinized, but an Egyptian official says it is too early to draw any conclusions.

The migrants did not start out helpless or naive, their families say. In interviews in six cities across Turkey, Iraq and Austria, the families of more than a dozen of the dead said many of the migrants were affluent and educated.

Two years after President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi led a military takeover promising to restore order and security in Egypt, he faces a rising jihadi insurgency that has shaken the nation's stability.

More than 100 Saudi Arabian jets pounded Yemeni targets Thursday in a drive to stop the Houthi advance through the country, and the Saudi news media declared that the first night of the offensive had fully disabled the Houthi-aligned air force.