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Saudi Arabia says new report "vastly exaggerated" and that rebels used schools, hospitals and mosques as bases.

Several hundred American troops have arrived at the Qayyarah air base near Mosul, Iraq, to assist Iraqi forces working to capture the last major Iraqi city held by the Islamic State. The U.S.-Iraqi attack will begin as e...

The passenger barricaded himself in a train car.

Republican candidate Donald Trump is accused again of hinting at an assassination of his Democrat rival Hillary Clinton.

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Only two candidates will be on stage during the first presidential debate -- Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. The Commission on Presidential Debates announced Friday that Libertarian Gary Johnson and Green Party nominee...

There is no evidence to support the claim Clinton started the birther movement

The armed forces are ill-prepared to defend against a serious military attack on the UK, such as a "Russian air effort", a senior commander has warned officials.

A 24-year-old transgender soldier becomes the first woman to serve on the front line with the British Army.

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The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia is kicking off its last conference as a rebel army as it looks to transition into a political movement following the signing of a peace accord. …

The Latest on the conflict in Syria, where a fragile cease-fire has entered its fifth day. (all times local): …

Suspect, now dead, surprised officer and shot her several times, police say Attacker fled before shooting into nearby bar and car, officers say An ambush, chase and shootout through the streets of Philadelphia on Friday ...

Phosphate supplier says 'absolutely nobody at risk' as company monitors groundwater at central Florida fertilizer plant More than 200m gallons of contaminated wastewater from a fertilizer plant in central Florida leaked ...

Burkina Faso's justice ministry says former prime minister Luc Adolphe Tiao has been arrested and accused of complicity with violence that killed protesters who forced the former president to step down. …

Niger's defense ministry says soldiers have killed 38 Boko Haram Islamic extremists during an operation in the country's southeast Diffa region. …

Organisers of rallies against controversial transatlantic free trade agreement expect 250,000 people to take part Demonstrators took to the streets across Germany on Saturday to protest against the controversial new tran...

The president of the European Council says British PM Theresa May told him she could trigger the Brexit process by February.

French police have swooped on a busy area of Paris amid reports of gunshots and an alert from the government.

A Pakistani official says the death toll from a suicide bombing at a mosque has risen to 36 after several of those wounded in the attack died in hospitals. …

A Pakistani court on Saturday adjourned the case of a British-Pakistani woman's murder until Sept. 23 to give police more time to finalize charges against her father and ex-husband, who are accused of slaying her in the ...

"It is excruciatingly clear that there is only one person in this election we can trust with those responsibilities"