WASHINGTON — Moving from reluctance to refusal and finally to acceptance, Turkey is joining its NATO allies and fellow Sunni Muslim nations in a coalition to destroy the...
U.S. airstrikes kill nearly 20
BEIRUT — U.S.-led airstrikes targeted Syrian oil installations held by the militant Islamic State group overnight and early today, killing ...
Joint chiefs chairman says 'no safe haven'
WASHINGTON — Combined U.S.-Arab airstrikes at the heart of the Islamic State group’s military strongholds in Syria achieved the...
LONDON — Western powers must be ready to commit ground forces to the fight against militants from the Islamic State group because airstrikes alone won't defeat these “fa...
KABUL, Afghanistan — Afghanistan’s drawn-out presidential election may finally be coming to an end.
Nearly six months after Afghans cast ballots in a first-round vote, ...
Militants sell, destroy artifacts
BAGHDAD — For more than 5,000 years, numerous civilizations have left their mark on upper Mesopotamia — from Assyrians and Akkadians to ...
EDINBURGH, Scotland — Scottish voters have resoundingly rejected independence, deciding to remain part of the United Kingdom after a historic referendum that shook the c...
TORONTO — Doctors say Toronto Mayor Rob Ford will undergo 40 days of chemotherapy to treat a rare and difficult-to-beat cancer that forced him to drop his bid for re-ele...
AMSTERDAM — Hundreds of young Dutch men and women turned Amsterdam’s central Dam square into a blizzard of red goop Sunday as they pelted each other with tomatoes.
In th...
REDIPUGLIA, Italy — Pope Francis urged the world Saturday to shed its apathy in the face of what he characterizes as a third world war, intoning “war is madness” at the ...
