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GAZIANTEP, Turkey -- Mohammed Saad, a Syrian activist, was imprisoned by the Islamic State group, hung by his arms and beaten regularly. Then one day, his jailors quickly pulled him and other prisoners down and hid them ...

US embassy says its nationals are missing after local media reported 3 Americans kidnapped by militias in Baghdad.

An Ohio man is sentenced to 30 days in jail for disorderly conduct and vehicle trespassing for trying to sell footage of a deadly crash. CNN affiliate WJW reports.

South Korea says North Korea has launched an estimated 1 million propaganda leaflets by balloon into the South amid increased tensions between the rivals following the North's recent nuclear test. …

The turbulent talks were punctuated by high diplomatic drama and near-collapses before a deal for a prisoner release was finalized.

British Prime Minister David Cameron came under fire Monday after publishing an op-ed piece hinting that immigrant Muslim women should be considered for deportation if they don't improve their English. Cameron, writing i...

British prosecutors say 4 men inspired by Islamic State group plotted to murder a police officer or soldier on the streets of London

Heavy snowfall has swept northwestern Turkey, grounding hundreds of flights, disrupting ground transport and closing schools in Istanbul

The city of Deir Ezzor in northern Syria has seen more than its share of conflict and suffering since the Syrian insurgency began. But the last few days have seen unprecedented horror, according to human rights activists...

MOUNT VERNON, Ohio -- A police officer was found dead behind the municipal building in Danville, Ohio, and a suspect is in custody, authorities said Monday. Danville Officer Thomas Cottrell was found dead on the ground b...

None of the three presidential candidates at the Democratic debate Sunday night appeared to understand the controversy over encryption technology that, in recent months, has pitted top national security officials against...

An Afghan official says the second round of four-country talks aimed at bringing an end to the war by charting a roadmap to peace are set to begin in Kabul. …

Even as the final votes were being tallied, President-elect Tsai Ing-wen was reaching out to China …

Following is a transcript of the Democratic debate, as transcribed by the Federal News Service.

Police say a suspect in an armed robbery at a St. Louis fast-food restaurant was killed in a shooting with a police officer

Anne Swaney was found dead Friday.

A Swedish doctor has been charged with drugging, raping and kidnapping a woman he allegedly imprisoned for six days in a windowless cement bunker, Stockholm's chief prosecutor says.

The boy got an experience that would make any football fan jealous.

Dozens of Muslim employees at a Wisconsin manufacturer say they are now out of a job after the company changed its prayer-on-the-job policy.

Several recent stories, like this one from the Washington Post's Philip Rucker and Robert Costa, report that influential Republicans have become increasingly resigned to the prospect of Donald Trump as their nominee. One...

Scholastic is pulling a new picture book about George Washington and his slaves amid objections it sentimentalizes a brutal part of American history. “A Birthday Cake for George Washington” was released Jan. 5 and ha...

The House of Commons will consider calls to bar GOP presidential hopeful Donald Trump from entering the United Kingdom, in a debate late Monday. More than a half-million Brits signed an online petition demanding that Tru...