war and unrest

LONDON (AP) — A husband and wife convicted for conspiring to bomb civilian targets in London have been given hefty prison sentences. Mohammed Rehman, ...

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — The scene had echoes of the Paris attacks: A bustling shopping area shaken by the blasts of suicide bombers and gunfire as o...

ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkish police have arrested one person suspected of a direct link to the deadly suicide bombing that killed 10 Germans in Istanbul's ...

BERLIN (AP) — German prosecutors have charged three men and one woman with forming a far-right terror group and planning a bombing on a refugee shelte...

QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — A suicide attack on a polio vaccination center in southwestern Pakistan on Wednesday killed 15 people, mainly policemen gather...

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Aid convoys delivered long-awaited food, medicine and other supplies to three besieged communities Monday, part of a U.N.-suppo...

PARIS (AP) — French investigators are trying to determine the true identity of the man wearing a fake explosives vest who tried to attack a Paris poli...

TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) — A massive truck bomb exploded near a police base in the western Libyan town of Zliten on Thursday, killing at least 60 policemen...

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — As a Saudi-Iran crisis roils the Middle East, the U.N. special envoy to Syria arrived in Damascus on Friday to lay the groundwo...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea plans to retaliate for North Korea's nuclear test by starting broadcasts of anti-Pyongyang propaganda across the...

PALO ALTO, Calif. (AP) — With extremists finding fertile ground for recruitment online, the White House is dispatching top national security officials...

PARIS (AP) — A man wearing a fake explosives vest and wielding a butcher knife was shot to death by police outside a Paris police station Thursday, jo...

JERUSALEM (AP) — Palestinians brandishing knives attacked Israeli soldiers in two separate incidents in the West Bank on Thursday night before forces ...

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The Dutch foreign minister has called an international conference next week to discuss the global "fight against terror....

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iraq on Wednesday offered to mediate between Saudi Arabia and Iran after tensions soared following the kingdom's execution of a Sh...

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

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran's president said on Tuesday that Saudi Arabia cannot "cover up" its crime of executing a leading Shiite cleric by severing di...

PARIS (AP) — French President Francois Hollande has honored 17 victims killed in Islamic extremist attacks on satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo, a kos...

PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii (AP) — When the U.S. wanted to show the world it didn't recognize what it called China's "excessive" territorial claims in disput...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Allies of Saudi Arabia followed the kingdom's lead Monday and scaled back diplomatic ties to Iran after the ransack...