BAGHDAD — An al-Qaida breakaway group’s formal declaration of an Islamic caliphate — or state — across the stretch of territory it controls in Syria and Iraq sparked cel...
WARSAW, Poland — President Barack Obama’s administration has taken the U.S. gay rights revolution global, using American embassies across the world as outposts in a stru...
Decision draws praise, criticism
WASHINGTON — After two decades of waffling, the United States on Friday announced its intention to join an international treaty banning l...
VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis condemned the legalization of recreational drugs as a flawed and failed experiment as he lent his voice to a debate that is raging from the U...
Country mulls new leadership
IRBIL, Iraq — The president of Iraq’s ethnic Kurdish region declared today that “we are facing a new reality and a new Iraq” as the country c...
Iraq military in collapse
WASHINGTON — U.S. teams of special forces going into Iraq after a three-year gap will face an aggressive insurgency, a splintering military and ...
Threat of civil war looms large
BAGHDAD — Confronting the threat of civil war in Iraq, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry flew to Baghdad today to personally urge the Shi...
DONETSK, Ukraine — Pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine’s embattled east have dismissed a unilateral cease-fire ordered by President Petro Poroshenko as fake, while nine U...
KABUL, Afghanistan — Hundreds of Afghans protested in the capital on Saturday against alleged fraud in last week’s presidential runoff, forcing a closure of the airport ...
BAGHDAD — Sunni militants have seized an Iraqi crossing on the border with Syria after a daylong battle in which they killed some 30 Iraqi troops, security officials sai...
