WASHINGTON — The United States on Monday ruled out coordination with Iran over military actions against Islamic militants in Iraq, despite Washington’s declared willingness to have...
MOSCOW — Russia cut gas supplies to Ukraine on Monday after negotiators failed to reach a deal on Ukraine’s unpaid gas bills and future gas prices...
BAGHDAD — Sunni militants captured a strategic city along the highway to Syria on Monday, moving closer to their goal of linking areas under their control...
NAIROBI, Kenya — Dozens of extremists attacked a Kenyan coastal town for hours, killing those who weren’t Muslim and those who didn’t know the Somali language,...
GENEVA — More than 20,000 elephants were poached last year in Africa where large seizures of smuggled ivory eclipsed those in Asia for the first time,...
CAIRO — Egypt has asked YouTube to remove a video of a woman being sexually assaulted in Tahrir Square during a rally supporting the country’s newly...
ANAHEIM, California — President Barack Obama said denying climate change is like arguing the moon is made of cheese, as he issued a call to action...
PHILADELPHIA — President Barack Obama on Saturday forced union workers in Philadelphia’s commuter rail strike to return to the job, granting Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett’s request...
JERUSALEM — Israel’s prime minister has accused the Palestinian militant group Hamas of kidnapping three Israeli teenagers who disappeared in the West Bank over the weekend....
KABUL, Afghanistan — Afghans braved threats of violence and searing heat Saturday to vote in a presidential runoff that likely will mark the country’s first peaceful...