WASHINGTON — Little of the impassioned debate that fractured lawmakers last year over possible military intervention in Syria is happening now as American warplanes strike extremist...
CAMP PENDLETON, California — Another 130 U.S. troops arrived in Iraq on Tuesday on what the Pentagon described as a temporary mission to assess the scope...
BAGHDAD — His days in power in Iraq appear increasingly numbered. World leaders, including his biggest ally, Iran, hail the nomination of the man who would...
CAIRO — Palestinian negotiators are mulling over an Egyptian proposal to end the month-long Gaza war with Israel, as the clock on the latest 72-hour cease-fire...
JERUSALEM — An Israeli military tactic that allows overwhelming fire to stop the capture of soldiers – even at the risk of killing them – is...
VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis’ five-day visit to South Korea will be the first time in a quarter-century that a pope has been on the divided...
VATICAN CITY—When Pope Francis was a young Jesuit, he wanted to follow in the great Jesuit tradition and become a missionary in Asia. Health problems kept...
TORONTO — The World Health Organization says it is ethical to use untested Ebola drugs to help quell the current unprecedented outbreak. But the Geneva-based international...
BAGHDAD — Iraq’s incumbent prime minister ordered the security forces on Tuesday not to intervene in the current political crisis over who will be the next...
FERGUSON, Mo. — The police chief in a St. Louis suburb where a police officer fatally shot an unarmed black teenager said he’s holding off on...