ISIS has is making and using crude chemical weapons and has used them on at least four occasions on both sides of the Iraq-Syria border, according to a BBC report. A US official told the news...

CONGRESS-IRAN-NUCLEAR WASHINGTON — The hard-fought nuclear accord with Iran survived the U.S. Senate on Thursday, as Democrats overcame ferocious Republican opposition and delivered...

Five family members, including three children, were found dead in their lakeside home Thursday in what police said appeared to be a murder-suicide. Police in an upscale suburb of Minneapolis went...

The U.N. General Assembly overwhelmingly approved a resolution Thursday allowing the Palestinians and the Holy See to raise their flags at U.N. headquarters — a symbolic step pursued by the...

Rescue workers searched for more than 20 missing people in a flooded city near Tokyo on Friday, as the sun came out a day after a raging river washed away houses and forced people to...

Pope Francis will make his first trip to Africa in November, visiting Kenya, Uganda and the Central African Republic in a pilgrimage that will bring him face to face with Islamic extremism and...

As if fear, hunger, thirst, worry and exhaustion were not enough to endure, new trials emerged Thursday for those on the 1,000 mile-plus trek into Europe: torrential rains and thick mud. About...

A joint resolution pushed by the EPP, S&D, ALDE and the Greens in the European Parliament was passed today, reiterating Parliament’s call to amend the existing Dublin Regulation to include a...

The influx of refugees to Europe was triggered in part by donors taking the "cheap option" and not giving enough aid to displaced Syrians in Middle Eastern asylum countries, the head of the U.N....

HOLOCAUST-CONGESS IRAN NUCLEAR WASHINGTON — Some of the most strident opponents of the nuclear accord with Iran are invoking memories of the Holocaust in an effort to defeat the agreement,...