An obscure private firm hired by the State Department over internal objections to protect U.S. diplomats in Benghazi just months before four Americans were murdered was staffed with hastily recruited locals with terror ties who helped carry out the attack, multiple sources told Fox News.
An Australian man acquitted of murder last month, after an online date gone awry, is under new scrutiny, stemming from a paid appearance on 60 Minutes in which he readily acknowledged the victim pleaded with him to stop, saying “no” a reported 33 times.
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is expressing alarm at "the weakening taboo" against using chemical weapons in Syria where an international watchdog agency says it is studying several recent cases of alleged use of the banned agents.
The International Monetary Fund has approved aid worth almost $180 million to Moldova ahead of a presidential runoff election that could see the impoverished former Soviet republic move closer to Europe or tilt toward Russia.
A former Bulgarian Air Force officer who has called on the European Union to lift its sanctions against Russia won the most votes in the country's presidential election, but not enough to avoid a runoff, according to results released Monday.
A U.S.-backed campaign to take the Syrian city of Raqqa from the Islamic State group is underway under the banner of the predominantly Kurdish Syria Democratic Forces (SDF).
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says recent political developments in Lebanon can be the key to breaking the deadlock in wars in Iraq, Syria, and Yemen.
Kurdish officials deported a Japanese journalist on Monday whose work on fundamentalist movements and close relationship with extremists has often aggravated authorities.
Iraqi Kurdish fighters exchanged heavy fire with militants early on Monday as they advanced from two directions into a town held by the Islamic State group east of the city of Mosul.
When Iraqi forces pushed into Mosul's urban center last week, Derek Coleman, an American volunteer medic, was among those treating the wounded at a front-line field clinic.