Northern Ireland and Scotland have been hit by heavy rain and gales as Storm Frank hit the UK’s shores. The storm has brought fears of fresh flooding.  There are currently four severe flood...

An Israeli man has died of wounds sustained in an early December stabbing in the West Bank city of Hebron. Shoham Rubio, a spokeswoman for Shaarei Tzedek hospital in Jerusalem, says 41-year-old...

North Korea said today that the country's top official in charge of relations with South Korea died in a traffic accident earlier this week. The Korean Central News Agency gave no other details,...

U.S. and coalition airstrikes killed 10 Islamic State leaders over the past month, including several linked to the Paris attacks or other plots against the West, a U.S. military official in Iraq said...

WASHINGTON — The United States criticizes Russia for killing hundreds of civilians in airstrikes in Syria and accuses Moscow of undermining hopes for a cease-fire between Bashar Assad's...

More than one million refugees and migrants have reached Europe by sea since the start of 2015, according to the United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR). More than 80% of the 1,000,573 people...

Sixty-nine journalists were killed around the world on the job in 2015. Twenty-eight of them were slain by Islamic militant groups, including al-Qaeda and the Islamic State group, according...

Israel's Supreme Court on Tuesday reduced former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's prison sentence for a sweeping bribery scandal from six years to 18 months, partially accepting his appeal and...

The mother of the youngest of the Paris attackers, who blew himself up outside France's national stadium, says she is "proud" that her son killed no one but himself. A woman identified as Fatima...

Belgium's federal prosecutor says two persons have been arrested on suspicion of planning attacks in Brussels during the holidays. The prosecutor's office said Tuesday that the two were arrested...