IS attacked on several fronts
BARTELLA, Iraq — Iraqi special forces charged into the Mosul battle today with a pre-dawn advance on a nearby town held by the Islamic State...
KHAZER, Iraq — Iraqi and Kurdish commanders said today they paused their advance on Mosul, a day after the start of a massive operation to retake the Islamic State-held ...
KHAZER, Iraq — Iraqi and Kurdish forces backed by U.S.-led airstrikes launched coordinated military operations early today as the long-awaited fight to wrest the norther...
KHAZIR, Iraq — The U.S.-led coalition is increasing airstrikes in and around the militant-held city of Mosul as Iraqi ground forces build up ahead of a planned operation...
[naviga:h3]Nobel awarded for economics[/naviga:h3]
STOCKHOLM — British-born Oliver Hart and Bengt Holmstrom of Finland won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences ...
3 choices were Americans
VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis named 17 new cardinals Sunday, adding like-minded prelates from dioceses big and small to the club who will elect the...
China lax on drug control
SHANGHAI — It’s one of the strongest opioids in circulation, so deadly an amount smaller than a poppy seed can kill a person. Until July, when r...
LES CAYES, Haiti — Haitians braced for a grim, rising death toll today as help slowly trickled into marooned areas of the country’s southwestern peninsula that was pumme...
Peace prize awarded after deal's rejection
OSLO, Norway — Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for his efforts to end a five-decades...
Haiti struggles to measure loss
LES CAYES, Haiti — Two days after Hurricane Matthew rampaged across Haiti’s remote southwestern peninsula, authorities and aid workers sti...
