The Kenyan military says it launched air strikes against Islamic militants in Somalia following an extremist attack on a Kenyan college that killed 148 people. Col. David Obonyo, a military...

Britain's Prince Harry joked and chatted with an enthusiastic crowd Monday at his only scheduled public appearance during a monthlong embedment with Australia's army, declaring pride in his ginger...

IRAN-NUCLEAR ANALYSIS — The framework nuclear deal sealed by world powers and Iran raises big questions: Could Iran cheat? Would the U.S. or anyone else be able to respond in time? Would a final...

Iraq won the battle to retake the city of Tikrit from the Islamic State group, backed by a coalition of the unlikely in Iranian advisers, Shiite militias, and U.S.-led airstrikes, but the country now...

Italian navy and coastguard ships have rescued about 1,500 migrants from five boats in the southern Mediterranean in less than 24 hours, officials have said. All of the migrants were rescued on...

The profile that has emerged of Germanwings co-pilot Andreas Lubitz has become more troubling by the day. In the hours after Flight 9525 crashed in the French Alps two weeks ago, Lubitz was...

DEATH ROW INMATE-ALABAMA BIRMINGHAM, Alabama — A man who spent nearly 30 years on Alabama's death row walks free two days after prosecutors acknowledged that the only evidence they had...

Pope Francis presided over the solemn Easter Vigil service Saturday night amid mounting Vatican concern for modern-day Christian martyrs whose deaths have dominated this Easter season. Francis...

          The crash of Germanwings Flight 9525 in France has heaped intense pressure on Lufthansa's CEO Carsten Spohr, who in less than a year at the...

FRANCE-PLANE-CRASH PARIS — The co-pilot of the doomed Germanwings flight repeatedly sped up the plane as he used the automatic pilot to descend the A320 into the Alps, the French air...