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Maryam al-Khawaja, who campaigns against abuse in Gulf state, charged with insulting king and assault on arrival.

U.S. warplanes carried out airstrikes and dropped humanitarian aid Saturday to Shia Turkmen who have been trapped and besieged by Islamic State militants for two months in the town of Amirli a U.S. senior defense officia...

Uma Mukherjee sat in an office chair in a conference room at the Chicago law firm of Mayer Brown, clutching a tissue in her left hand.

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A U.S. Border Patrol agent fired several rounds toward an armed militia member in Texas, reigniting concerns among law enforcement officials about conflicts with untrained and unregulated volunteers who have arrived at t...

Russian President Vladimir Putin pushed for talks between Ukraine and pro-Russian separatists that could lead to a "political settlement" between the two sides after months of fighting, Reuters reported. Putin's comments...

After two days spent trapped in the Golan Heights by Islamist militants, 32 U.N. peacekeepers from the Philippines were rescued on Saturday, while still 40 others remained under siege on the plateau between Israel and Sy...

On a tightly-controlled trip, CNN's Will Ripley gets a glimpse of a country that has erected an almost unassailable boundary between it and the outside world.

Convicted Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan has written a letter, asking to become a citizen of the Islamic State. Hasan is on death row at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, for the 2009 shooting at Fort Hood in Texas that lef...

Carlos Enrique Londoño laughs at the Ku Klux Klan recruitment flier recently left on the driveway of his suburban New York home. It's unlikely the group would accept him.

(MANILA, Philippines) -- The Philippine military chief says more than 70 Filipino peacekeepers have escaped from two areas in the Golan Heights that came under attack by Syrian rebels. Gen. Gregorio Pio Catapang said Sun...

American planes struck the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, and dropped food, water and aid near the northern town of Amerli.

Ali al-Sayyed, a Lebanese soldier and Sunni Muslim, was beheaded by Islamic State militants, a video released Saturday by the terrorist group purportedly shows. The video depicts Al-Sayyed blindfolded with his hands boun...

BILBAO, Spain -- Kenneth Faried scored 22 points on 11- of-14 shooting and the United States pulled away down the stretch for a 98-77 win over Turkey on Day 2 of the 2014 FIBA World Cup.

Democratic and Republican representatives criticise US president as he wrestles with crises in Iraq, Syria and Ukraine.

The Bears will enter the regular season with a new long snapper after they waived Brandon Hartson on Sunday.

Reports say hospital in Swedish capital is treating in isolation unit a man who travelled to a "risk area".

The campaign has only just begun but Marina Silva, who was handed the Brazilian Socialist Party's nomination after her running mate died in a plane crash, is now the candidate to beat on Oct.5

The Electric Zoo Festival, the annual electronic dance music gathering, took over Randalls Island a year after two festivalgoers died after using the drug known as Molly.

Houthi tribal leader urges supporters to escalate ongoing protests, defying appeals by the UN to end hostilities.

Firefighters are responding to a large blaze in the city.

Democrats and Republicans took to the Sunday talk shows to criticize the president for not having a strategy on how to deal with ISIL.