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...

CLEVELAND — A grand jury declines to indict a white police officer in the killing of Tamir Rice, a 12-year-old black boy who was shot while playing with what turned out to be a pellet gun....

Iraqi PM Haider al-Abadi has said that ISIS will be ousted from the country after government forces recaptured Ramadi. Speaking on television, Mr Abadi vowed to retake Iraq's second city of...

Bosnia will officially apply in January to join the European Union in January, encouraged by the bloc's positive assessment of its reform progress, various media houses report.  New Europe says...

The storm system that spawned tornadoes in Texas over the weekend was bringing winter stormwoes to the Midwest and worsening flooding already being blamed for more than a dozen...