U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry says NATO members stand ready to step up military efforts against the Islamic State. Kerry says he asked foreign ministers from the 27 other members of the...

UNITED STATES-ISLAMIC STATE WASHINGTON — The U.S. military will deploy a new special operations force to Iraq to step up the fight against Islamic State militants unleashing violence in...

The Islamic State group has between 2,000 and 3,000 fighters in Libya and has demonstrated its intention to control more territory in the strategically located North African country — but it is...

A pipe bomb left on a highway overpass near an Istanbul subway station exploded Tuesday, wounding five people, a local official said. The blast caused some panic in the city, which is on edge...

Aiming to head off a rift between major Mideast players, President Barack Obama urged Turkey and Russia on Tuesday to set aside tensions over the downing of a Russian warplane and focus on the common...

Authorities in Italy and Kosovo have detained four Kosovars suspected of making threats against the pope and a U.S. diplomat. Italian police said Tuesday that three were detained in...

A rudder control system problem that had occurred 23 times in the previous 12 months coupled with the pilots' response led to last year's crash of an AirAsia plane that killed all 162 people on board,...

Christmas is coming — and investors are already convinced they will unwrap an early present Thursday in the form of more economic stimulus from the European Central Bank. ECB head Mario...

A public school principal in predominantly Roman Catholic Italy has been accused of cancelling Christmas after removing religious songs from the annual holiday pageant. Everyone from...

PRESIDENTIAL RACE-TRUMP-MINISTERS NEW YORK — Dozens of black pastors press Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump to address what some called his use of racially charged...