rebellions and uprisings

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Forget the ceremonial gavel passing and group photos. Venezuela's new congress, now dominated by opponents of the socialist ...

BEIRUT (AP) — A U.S.-backed coalition of rebels in Syria — including Syrian Kurdish, Arab and Christian groups — captured several areas in the country...

WASHINGTON (AP) — One nation, two wars, a quarter-million lives lost, millions forced from their homes, and still no end in sight for the pitiless, se...

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuela's opposition won control of the National Assembly by a landslide, stunning the ruling party and altering the balan...

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuelans are stockpiling food and putting off plans as the South American country brims with excitement and dread ahead o...

OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso (AP) — Burkina Faso took a step toward strengthening its democracy with the election on Tuesday of Roch Marc Christian Kabor...

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...

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...

HPA-AN, Myanmar (AP) — During nearly seven decades the villages of the Karen have been torched, their men summarily executed and their women raped as ...

BENGHAZI, Libya (AP) — Even before the film's release, Hollywood director Michael Bay's new action movie is stirring controversy among government offi...

CAIRO (AP) — Egyptian voters head to the polls Sunday to elect a parliament, the first since the military-led ouster of Islamist President Mohammed Mo...

TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — It was the fall of 2013 and Tunisia's newfound democracy was in grave danger. The assassination of a left-wing politician had pr...

LONDON (AP) — The U.S. is abandoning its goal of having America's military train a new force of moderate Syrian rebels, turning its focus to equipping...

SURDA, West Bank (AP) — A new generation of angry, disillusioned Palestinians is driving the current wave of clashes with Israeli forces: Too young to...

JERUSALEM (AP) — A series of grisly Palestinian attacks that killed several Israeli civilians has prompted the government to take unprecedented securi...

MOSCOW (AP) — The latest developments as Russia and other nations counter Islamic State militants in Syria. All times local: 8:25 p.m. Germany's forei...

HAVANA (AP) — When Fidel Castro staged a first, failed attempt to overthrow the Cuban government, Roman Catholic Archbishop Enrique Perez Serantes ple...

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — In a bid to consolidate his political support and complete a crucial bailout with creditors, Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras...

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — The Philippine president asked Congress on Monday to pass a troubled Muslim autonomy bill at the heart of efforts to end a ...

SANAA, Yemen (AP) — A new truce in Yemen was pierced within an hour as Saudi-led airstrikes hit targets in the capital Sanaa and the southwestern city...