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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...

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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

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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. …

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. …

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 ...

PHILADELPHIA -- Officials say two police officers been shot in a confrontation in West Philadelphia. An officer from the Philadelphia police radio room says the officers were injured shortly after 11 p.m. Friday and have...

Frustrated with the University of North Carolina's handling of sexual violence reports, five women took matters into their own hands in 2013 by going public with their stories and pursuing justice through other means.

As millions of Russians vote in parliamentary elections this weekend, one of the stand-out features of the campaign has been the presence of the opposition.

Officials say two police officers been shot in a confrontation in West Philadelphia

The U.S. State Department said on Friday it had designated the leader of a group of French foreign fighters in Syria and a senior Hamas official as specially designated global terrorists, a move that freezes their U.S. a...

GOP nominee says Clinton's Secret Service detail should have their guns taken away; comments reminiscent of "Second Amendment people" controversy last month

A beloved high school teacher whose students gathered outside his window to serenade him has died after a battle with cancer.

Michelle Obama hit the campaign trail for Hillary Clinton Friday -- only to encounter voters more eager to keep the Obamas in the White House than elect Clinton. "It is so hard to believe that it is less than two months ...

A one-year-old boy in Texas died this week in the back his mother's car, becoming the 30th child in the United States this year to succumb to heatstroke while left behind in a car seat, according to the advocacy group Ki...