President Bashar Assad vowed Thursday that "Syria will defend itself" against Western military strikes over a suspected chemical weapons attack, and the U.N. said inspectors will leave...

Two high-ranking Lithuanian diplomats were fired Thursday after their telephone conversations criticizing the president and insulting the countries where they served were secretly recorded and...

Britain's leaders said Thursday it would be legal under humanitarian doctrine to launch a military strike against Syria even without authorization from the United Nations Security...

The Yugoslav war crimes tribunal has removed a Danish judge from the long-running war crimes trial of Serbian nationalist Vojislav Seselj, saying in a decision published Thursday that a letter the...

Each summer, microscopic dust particles kicked up by African sandstorms blow thousands of kilometers across the Atlantic to arrive in the Caribbean, limiting airplane pilots' visibility to just a...

Fears of a possible U.S. strike against Syria's regime over an alleged chemical weapons attack rippled across the region Wednesday, as about 6,000 Syrians fled to neighboring Lebanon in a 24-hour...

President Barack Obama led civil rights pioneers Wednesday in a ceremony for the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington, where Dr. Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech...

The world will still have a responsibility to stop the bloodshed in Syria even if there is no agreement at the U.N. over Britain's proposal for a U.N. Security Council resolution to condemn the...

The Obama administration is still defining the central objectives of a potential military strike on Syria and considering possible Syrian government responses, even as U.S. intelligence agencies...

Britain says it will put forward a resolution Wednesday to the U.N. Security Council condemning the Syrian government for the alleged chemical attack that has killed hundreds of...