BEIRUT — Islamic State extremists claimed an American woman held hostage by the group was killed Friday in a Jordanian airstrike in northern Syria, but the government of...
TOKYO — College-educated and gainfully employed 36-year-old Eriko Sekiguchi should be a sought after friend or date, planning nights on the town and faraway resort vacat...
TAIPEI, Taiwan — One of the engines on TransAsia Airways Flight 235 went idle 37 seconds after takeoff, and the pilots apparently shut off the other before making a futi...
TAIPEI, Taiwan — Moments before the TransAsia Airways propjet banked sharply and crashed into a river, one of its pilots said, “Mayday, mayday, engine flameout,” accordi...
Structure preaches religious tolerance
BALEA LAC, Romania — High on a remote mountain in Romania, priests have blessed a church made entirely from ice, outstanding both f...
Militants burn hostage to death
CAIRO — A video showing Islamic State militants burning a captive Jordanian pilot to death brought an outpouring of grief and rage across ...
TOKYO — Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe defended his policy toward terrorism, as the flag at his official residence flew at half-staff today in a mark of mourning for...
Islamic State deadline passes
TOKYO — The fates of a Japanese journalist and Jordanian military pilot were unknown today, a day after the latest purported deadline for a ...
Hostage cases intertwined
TOKYO — A sunset deadline was approaching today in the Middle East for Jordan to release an Iraqi prisoner or face the death of a captured Jorda...
Exchange would set precedent
AMMAN, Jordan — Jordan is willing to swap an Iraqi woman prisoner involved in a deadly 2005 hotel bombing for a Jordanian pilot captured in D...
