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Syria, Russia condemn US-led coalition strike

He said: "We are not increasing our role in the Syrian civil war". On Thursday, US-led warplanes hit a pro-regime convoy near the border with Jordan , say...

Trump's Warm Welcome in the Middle East Is No Surprise

We'll have more on Trump's visit to Israel and Palestine after headlines. In his speech yesterday, Mr Trump seemed to acknowledge the complexities of th...

UK police say 'large part of network' behind Manchester attack arrested

The investigation into the Manchester Arena atrocity has continued apace as security agencies swooped on the suicide bomber's suspected "network". "This iss...

Trump tells Nato allies to pay their debts

The latest example comes from Brussels , where Trump is meeting with other North Atlantic Treaty Organisation heads of state. KEITH: NATO countries have ag...

Airstrikes in eastern Syrian town leave 35 dead, activists say

Thursday's toll brought the known deaths from two days of coalition bombing raids on Mayadeen to 50, the Observatory said, after 15 people were killed in US-l...

Gianforte wins House race after assault charge against reporter

The Montana race focused on Quist's history of financial problems and Gianforte's stance on House Republicans' effort to dismantle Obamacare. Mr Gianfort...

Trump creates panel to investigate voter fraud

President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order chartering an investigation into alleged corruption in the American electoral system - an insti...

Jared Kushner now a focus of FBI's Russian Federation investigation

The naming of Kushner follows a story that appeared in the Washington Post last week, which reported that a "senior White House official close to the...

Montana House GOP candidate Gianforte 'body slammed' reporter

The election for Montana's vacant House seat, in which Gianforte is challenged by Democratic nominee Robert Quist, is scheduled for Thursday night. By the e...

United States places Venezuela Supreme Court justices on sanctions list

Ramirez stressed that Venezuela is not on the Security Council agenda and said many council members "disagree with the U.S." and back his government's position ...

Melania Trump wears $51K Dolce & Gabbana jacket in Sicily

She also arrived at Rome's Leonardo da Vinci Airport Tuesday afternoon in a Dolce & Gabbana button-front coat with gold brocade on a fluted neck collar and at t...

FG leadership battle to precede Longford convention

The party then formed a minority government with independent TDs (members of parliament), with party leader Kenny serving as Prime Minister for the second time....

Met Office issues severe weather warning for Derry

Lightning strikes may also hit the city, which could cause power cuts, the officials say. Saturday is due to be a hot, humid and sunny day before cloud increa...

Investigators Explore Manchester Concert Bomber's Links To Larger Network

In March, a British-born convert to Islam plowed a auto into pedestrians on London's Westminster Bridge, killing four people, before stabbing to death a polic...

UK politics resume after attack; Corbyn links terror to wars

In Manchester , police hunting for a suspected Islamist network behind Salman Abedi , the 22-year-old British-born man with Libyan parents who blew himself ...

Ariana Grande offers to pay for the Manchester bombing victims' funerals

Neighbor and family friend Akram Ben Ramadan, remembers Abedi as a quiet child and says he last saw him and his brother three months ago at evening prayers. As ...

Gianforte snags Montana's lone congressional seat, apologizes to Jacobs

Gianforte apologized to Ben Jacobs by name, saying he should not have responded the way he did, and that he's sorry. They bashed him as a tool of liberal ...

Corbyn criticsed over speech linking terror to United Kingdom policies

Washington's top diplomat Rex Tillerson is due to visit London on Friday in an expression of solidarity, after Britain reacted furiously to leaks of sensiti...

Iraqi forces call on civilians to flee Mosul's ISIS-held Old City

Coalition airstrikes have removed senior Islamic State of Iraq and Syria military officials and planners from the battlefield, Combined Joint Task Force Op...

Gunmen attack Coptic Christians in Egypt, killing at least 23

The bus was heading to Anba Samuel monastery in the Minya Governorate, 250km south of Cairo . Till now no group or entity declared its responsibility on the ...

Egyptian warplanes bomb targets in Libya after attack on Christians

The government is fighting insurgents affiliated to Islamic State who have killed hundreds of police and soldiers in the Sinai peninsula, while also carrying ou...

Egypt Coptic Christians killed in bus attack, at least 23 dead

The victims were traveling from the nearby province of Bani Suief to visit the monastery. Here's the real horror of this particular attack: "A journalist at...

Militants attack Christians in Egypt, killing at least 28

Egypt has seen a wave of attacks on its Christians, including twin suicide bombings in April and another attack in December on a Cairo church that left over...

Egypt: Germany condemns attack on Copts in Egypt

One of the vehicles attacked was taking men to carry out maintenance work at the monastery while another had children on board, officials said . The shooting...

Hawaii's Fight Over Revised Travel Ban Hits 9th Circuit

Katyal pointed to Washington v. Trump , in which US District Judge James Robart issued a temporary restraining order on the first executive order and later a...

Father of suspected Manchester bomber says his son is innocent

Three of the four arrests were made on the south side of Manchester , the area where Abedi lived, according to authorities. His brother, Ismail, and father, Ra...

Henderson's Appeal Denied By NCAA James Henderson

A waiver is needed for a sixth season. The NCAA decided Henderson would not be able to recoup his transfer season. Recent sixth-year waiver cases similar to H...

Pope Francis Met With Donald Trump

In recent days, Francis and Trump have been in agreement on a need for Muslim leaders to do more against extremists in their own communities. In Saudi Arab...

Trump, G-7 peers seek deals on terrorism, trade, climate

The summit kicks of four days after 22 people, including children, were killed in a concert bomb attack in Manchester in northern England. According to th...

UN Security Council condemns Egypt bus attack

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas also issued a statement condemning the attack, as did the Islamist terror group Hamas, which rules the Gaza Strip....