triple bombing claimed by the extremist Islamic State group killed at least 45 people near the Syrian capital of Damascus on Sunday, overshadowing an already shaky start to what are meant to be...

A survivor hidden in a tree says he watched Boko Haram extremists firebomb huts and heard the screams of children among people burned to death in the latest attack by Nigeria's homegrown...

British Prime Minister David Cameron and European Council President Donald Tusk will meet Sunday to try to hammer out a deal aimed at keeping the U.K. in the EU, after Cameron said the existing...

Carnival-goers in Venice are being asked by police to momentarily lift their masks as part of new anti-terrorism measures for the annual festivities. Police are also examining backpacks and bags...

Terry Wogan, one of the best-known voices and faces on British television and radio, has died aged 77. His family said in a statement Wogan died Sunday surrounded by family members...

PRESIDENTIAL RACE MANCHESTER, Iowa — Republican and Democratic presidential hopefuls crisscross the Midwestern state of Iowa in a frenzied weekend prelude before voters have their first say...

Turkey's Foreign Ministry says it has summoned the Russian ambassador after a Russian jet violated Turkey's airspace on Friday, despite several warnings. A Foreign Ministry statement on Saturday...

The U.N. secretary-general expresses horror over allegations U.N. peacekeepers and foreign troops sexually abused children in violence-plagued Central African Republic. In remarks before African...

Turkey's state-run news agency says at least 35people, including five children, have drowned in the Aegean Sea after their Greece-bound boat capsized off the Turkish coast. Anadolu Agency says...

AFGHAN WAR WASHINGTON — Fifteen years into the war that few Americans talk about any more, conditions in Afghanistan are getting worse, preventing the clean ending that President Barack...