Amnesty International reports that Iraqi government forces and paramilitaries have arbitrarily detained, tortured and killed male Sunni civilians who have escaped from Islamic State areas and are suspected of having…

Scientists using new technology have announced some intriguing new discoveries while peering deep inside the great pyramids of Giza. The results come from the Scan Pyramids group, a collaboration between…

Kurdish and Iraqi forces advancing on Mosul are finding a trail of destruction left by the Islamic State (IS) as the two forces retake villages that have been under IS…

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History has launched a crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter to preserve the ruby slippers from the 1939 movie “The Wizard of Oz.” The museum hopes…

Twenty-eight-year old Nurto Ahmed Abdullahi stands beside the dusty airstrip at Kenya’s Dadaab refugee camp, preparing to board a charter flight to Mogadishu. She is one of tens of thousands…

Pedestrians pause to take in the towering gold spires of Russia’s latest export, sitting in the shadow of the Eiffel Tower. Tape still fences off the gleaming white complex that…

The flow of foreign fighters traveling from Latin America to join Islamic State forces in the Middle East has been “significantly curtailed,” a top U.S. admiral said Tuesday. Navy Admiral…

Drugs that are used to treat a number of autoimmune diseases appear to treat symptoms of depression as well. The finding of a new study suggests that anti-inflammatories, as they…

The United States has long been characterized as an optimistic country, but the toxic 2016 election has soured voters of all ages. In fact, according to a new poll, many…

Seven-year-old Bana Al Alabed tweeted that the city of Aleppo was quiet Tuesday in the wake of overnight bombing by Syrian and Russian forces.  The lull in airstrikes gave her…

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Aid agencies are sounding the alarm about severe food insecurity throughout northern Cameroon as a result of the Boko Haram conflict. This month, 70 children suffering from malnutrition have needed…

Cheating on exams is not new. What is new is how students are doing it — they’re not writing answers on their hand anymore. Smart technology has transformed cheating, and…

It ranks as one of the most disingenuous claims ever made by a modern British politician. Buffeted by a balance of payments crisis, Britain was forced in 1967 to devalue…

Eighty-six American law enforcement officers were killed in the line of duty in 2015, a Federal Bureau of Investigation report released Tuesday said. About half of the deaths occurred in…

At least eight people, including six Somali government officials, were killed Tuesday in a heavy al-Shabab attack on Afgoye, a town 30 kilometers west of the Somali capital, Mogadishu. Among…

The United Nations said Tuesday that 36 hours into the Iraqi and Kurdish military offensive to liberate Mosul from the Islamic State group, it had not seen any immediate large…

Increasingly confident of winning the U.S. presidency in the November election, Democrat Hillary Clinton is expanding her campaign into traditionally Republican states in hopes of closing off a path to…

U.S. President Barack Obama rebuked Donald Trump Tuesday for claiming that the presidential election is rigged against him, saying the Republican contender ought to “stop whining” and instead persuade voters…