Islamic State fighters trying to hold on to the terror group’s shrinking, self-declared caliphate appear to be ready to turn their Iraqi capital into a fiery inferno rather than relinquish…
continue readingThe commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan says neighboring Pakistan has not yet placed “adequate pressure” on the Haqqani Network of militants to prevent them from plotting deadly…
continue readingWarplanes have mounted a new wave of air strikes on rebel-held areas of Aleppo as part of a planned major offensive by the Russian-backed Syrian military. …
continue readingA pilot of the Pakistani armed forces was killed as his fighter jet crashed in the Khyber Agency tribal region on September 24. …
continue readingTwelve people are dead after militants attacked a police checkpoint north of Tikrit and then detonated a car bomb at the entrance to the city. …
continue readingA defiant North Korea on September 23 vowed to strengthen its nuclear capabilities despite UN sanctions and Security Council resolutions, with the reclusive nation’s foreign minister saying that his country…
continue readingAzerbaijan is holding a referendum on September 26 on constitutional amendments to expand its president’s powers, but voters have little information about what they are being asked to approve. …
continue readingYahoo News is reporting that U.S. intelligence officials are trying to establish whether a businessman identified by Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump as a foreign policy adviser has held private…
continue readingA massive manhunt is underway in the northwestern U.S. state of Washington for a gunman who fatally shot five people in a shopping mall late Friday. Four women and one…
continue readingThe police chief of the southeastern U.S. city of Charlotte, North Carolina, said Friday the video police recorded during the fatal shooting of an African-American man will eventually be released.…
continue readingA coalition of 75 U.S. and Canadian native groups that opposes expansion of North American oil production will join a U.S. tribe’s fight against the Dakota Access pipeline if tensions…
continue readingPresident Barack Obama, in his weekly address Saturday, talked about what he described as “the newest American icon on our National Mall – the National Museum of African American History…
continue readingBringing the American Wild West to life was no easy task, just ask the cast of “The Magnificent Seven,” who endured scorching heat and torrential rain in wool costumes in…
continue readingMore than 6 million people in Nigeria, Niger, Chad and Cameroon face severe hunger, including 1 million on the edge of famine, as a result of Boko Haram violence, aid…
continue readingAmericans’ confidence in their police has grown in the past year, but law-enforcement advocates and some social scientists worry that may change because of a recent spate of police killings…
continue readingU.S. Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew will urge his counterparts in Argentina, Brazil, Colombia and Mexico next week to press ahead with economic and fiscal reforms aimed at restoring or strengthening…
continue readingAlmost 40 years after the first human test-tube baby was born, South African scientists have produced something bulkier: the first Cape buffalo brought into the world by in vitro fertilization…
continue readingA SpaceX rocket that burst into flames on its launch pad at the beginning of this month likely suffered a large breach in its upper-stage helium system, the company said…
continue readingArgentina’s largest umbrella union, the CGT, called on Friday for a 24-hour general strike next month in a sign opposition is growing to free-market reforming President Mauricio Macri. Faced with…
continue readingThe annual CITES conference opens Saturday in South Africa. The global conservation body is expected to make a determination on whether African countries should destroy seized ivory or be allowed…
continue readingColombia’s FARC rebel group voted unanimously to approve a peace deal with the government Friday, declaring an end to the five-decade war as it prepares to transition into a new…
continue readingAt least 13 people have died in two days of clashes in a city in central Democratic Republic of the Congo that pitted security forces against militia fighters seeking to…
continue readingHaiti’s October presidential election will be important to easing poverty, acting President Jocelerme Privert told the United Nations General Assembly on Friday, as the United States toughens its stance toward…
continue readingA chunk of the Berlin Wall and a pair of cowboy boots that belonged to late U.S. President Ronald Reagan sold for 10 times their estimated value at a New…
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