military and defense

LONDON (AP) — The latest news after officials say a U.S. drone strike targeted a vehicle in Syria believed to be transporting the masked Islamic State...

Military spokesman: US 'reasonably certain' Jihadi John is dead; world is 'better off'The Latest: White House says strike against Jihadi John shows US...

Kurdish Iraqi fighters cut Islamic State supply line as a major offensive beginsA look at the Iraqi town of Sinjar and its importance as Iraqi Kurds l...

JERUSALEM (AP) — Security camera footage of a deadly Israeli arrest raid in a West Bank hospital on Thursday gave a rare glimpse into the murky underc...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Immediately after the U.S. killed at least 30 people in a devastating airstrike on a charity hospital, Afghanistan's national securi...

Ninety-seven years ago, an armistice ended World War I, which was then the greatest conflict the world had ever seen. Armistice Day became Veterans Da...

CALAIS, France (AP) — The latest news as tens of thousands of people fleeing war or poverty make their way across Europe. All times local. 6:35 p.m. T...

CAIRO (AP) — A leading investigative journalist and human rights advocate is facing accusations from Egypt's military prosecutor, his colleague said S...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A bright, colorful light that streaked across the California sky, startling residents and leading to a flurry of calls to law enfor...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran's landmark nuclear deal with world powers has done little to stop the country from pursuing activities beyond ...

REYHANLI, Turkey (AP) — Despite a month of heavy battering by Russian airstrikes, Syria's rebels have so far been able to fend off offensives by gover...

PARIS (AP) — France will reinstate controls on its borders — normally open to other countries in Europe's free-travel zone — for the period around a m...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon's plan outlining the long-stalled effort to close the Guantanamo Bay detention center, expected in the coming week, inc...

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — The latest as tens of thousands of people flood into Europe in search of a new life. All times local. 6:30 p.m. Slovenia's presi...

BAGHDAD (AP) — Ahmad Chalabi, a prominent Iraqi politician who became a Pentagon favorite when he helped convince the Bush administration to overthrow...

PANMUNJOM, Korea (AP) — U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter called on North Korea to shrink and eventually eliminate its nuclear weapons program, while ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A small number of U.S. special operations forces will be sent to northern Syria to work with local troops in the fight against Islam...

LONDON (AP) — The last U.K. resident imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay returned home to Britain on Friday after almost 14 years in which he became a defian...

Something about the dozens of individually wrapped chocolate bars in the luggage of a man flying from California to Japan struck a federal Customs and...

BEIJING (AP) — A U.S. Navy warship sailed past one of China's artificial islands in the South China Sea on Tuesday, in a challenge to Chinese sovereig...