Category Archives: World

DIBAGA CAMP, Iraq - As the Islamic State group loses ground in Iraq, the militants are showing strains in their rule over areas they still control, growing more brutal, killing deserters and relying o...

PARIS - France and Germany pushed Tuesday for Europe-wide rules requiring the makers of encrypted messaging apps such as Telegram to help governments monitor communications among suspected extremists....

CAIRO - WikiLeaks’ giant data dumps have rattled the National Security Agency, the U.S. Democratic Party, and the Saudi foreign ministry. But its spectacular mass-disclosures have also included ...

ZACHARY, La. - Standing amid piles of waterlogged debris, President Barack Obama on Tuesday promised a sustained national effort to rebuild flood-ravaged southern Louisiana “even after the TV ca...

FORT BRAGG, N.C. - Attorneys for Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl are trying to send his court case “off the judicial cliff” by arguing that U.S. Sen. John McCain improperly swayed military decisio...

WASHINGTON - With suspicions on both sides mounting, the United States is struggling to preserve its wobbly partnership with Turkey as the Turks entertain closer relations with Russia and fume over a ...

TEHRAN, Iran - Iran’s parliament on Tuesday pushed back against the military after it appeared to dismiss civilian oversight following Russia’s use of an Iranian air base to launch airstri...

NEW DELHI - Doctors in northern India have surgically removed 40 knives from the stomach of a man who had swallowed them over the past two months, one of the physicians said Tuesday. The 42-year-old m...

SAN FRANCISCO - The Northern California judge who sentenced a former Stanford University swimmer to six months in jail for sexually assaulting an unconscious woman reignited debate Tuesday about his a...

GANSBAAI, South Africa - On the edge of a boat off this coastal village, Michael Rutzen stubs his cigarette into a soda can and stares pensively out to sea. He has free-dived with great white sharks f...