U.S. soldiers attend welcoming ceremony for NATO troops near Orzysz, Poland, in 2017. (Kacper Pempel/Reuters) The U.S.-led alliance has been very successful for most of a century. Now what? It is a bit rich to…

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — A pair of Israeli airstrikes targeted senior Islamic Jihad commanders in Gaza and Syria early Tuesday, escalating Israel’s confrontation with Iran across the region and threatening to unleash another…

Militants in Gaza sent a barrage of at least 50 rockets over the border into Tel Aviv early Tuesday, vowing further revenge after the Israeli military carried out a pair of targeted airstrikes on senior…

Authorities in the Australian eastern states of New South Wales and Queensland declared a state of emergency Monday, as they brace for "catastrophic" wildfire conditions, Reuters reports. Why it matters: The fires have killed at…

A pro-democracy protester was shot at close range and a counterprotester was set on fire as violence continued to engulf Hong Kong on Monday morning, with the disturbing images of street fights and escalating attacks from both sides drowning…

LA MORA, Mexico (AP) — After holding funerals for and burying some of the nine American women and children slain in a cartel ambush, residents of this town of about 300 are left to come…

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson in London, Britain, November 6, 2019. (Toby Melville/Reuters) If he doesn’t, the Tories could be in trouble in the coming election. So how do things stand in the United Kingdom…

Two former Twitter employees and a Saudi national have been federally charged with working for the Saudi government to access private Twitter accounts. Ali Alzabarah and Ahmad Abouammo allegedly used their Twitter credentials to gain…

The suspect was found late Tuesday in the town of Agua Prieta, right at the border with the U.S. state of Arizona, holding two hostages who were gagged and tied inside a vehicle A heavily…

A suspect was arrested near the Arizona border with Mexico in connection with the deaths of nine U.S. citizens - six children and three women – Monday who were living in a Mormon community about 70…

In the past month, the name and image of General Mazloum Adbi, the commander of the Kurdish Syrian Democratic Forces, or SDF, has become well known to Americans. The decision by President Trump to precipitously…

Credit: Getty Images/Mark Wilson Trump and Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro seem like kindred spirits, aligned on everything from cracking down on crime and illegal immigration to the aggressive swipes they’ve taken at other world leaders.…

A new "sovereign internet" law came into force in Russia on Friday. The law will allow the government to cut the entire country's internet off from the rest of the worldwide web, ostensibly to protect…

Morning commuters at the Tiantongyuanbei subway station in Beijing in 2011. (Michael Martina/Reuters) China’s Leninist state will continue the corrupt or otherwise inefficient allocation of resources, making robust economic growth even more elusive than it…

Barricade with the protesters at Hrushevskogo street on January 26, 2014 in Kiev, Ukraine. Sasha Maksymenko / cc Counting on foreign aid to reduce corruption is like expecting whiskey to cure alcoholism. After closed House…

Diseased and wounded Islamic State terrorists under Kurdish custody in Syria are requesting to be returned home to the West, the Agence-France Presse (AFP) reported on Tuesday. Among the aforementioned Islamic terrorists are persons infected with…

(Henry Nicholls/Reuters) The constituents of the European Union find that they can check out any time they like, but they can never leave. The difficulty of Brexit is the case for Brexit. The argument against…

Vehicles burn in a street of Culiacan, state of Sinaloa, Mexico, on October 17, 2019. Heavily armed gunmen in trucks fought an intense battle against Mexican security forces Thursday there. (Photo by STR/AFP via Getty…

BAGHDAD/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is believed to have been killed in a U.S. military operation in Syria, sources in the region said on Sunday and U.S. President Donald Trump was…

Mazloum Abdi, commander-in-chief of the Syrian Democratic Forces speaks to reporters near the northeastern Syrian Hassakeh province on Thursday.   AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption   AFP via Getty Images   Mazloum…

BRUSSELS (AP) — The United States will send armored vehicles and combat troops into eastern Syria to keep oil fields from potentially falling into the hands of Islamic State militants, U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper…

A Turkish solider in the town of Tal Abyad, Syria, October 23, 2019 (Khalil Ashawi/Reuters) The State Department confirmed Wednesday that more than 100 ISIS prisoners have escaped since Turkey’s invasion of northern Syria following…