The 28-year-old Green Beret who was killed by a roadside bomb in Afghanistan had told his wife he knew he was about to go on a dangerous mission, but said he loved her and that everything would be OK.
Colombia's government and the country's biggest leftist rebel group have reached a peace deal that puts the South American nation on the threshold of ending a five-decade war.
After four years of grueling bombardment and crippling siege, the remaining residents and rebels of a Damascus suburb agreed to surrender and evacuate under the terms of an agreement reached Thursday, Syrian government and opposition activists said.
She became the face of Italy's earthquake: Sister Marjana Lleshi, blood staining her veil as she texted her family and friends in her native Albania that she was alive.
A Somali police officer says a car bomber has prematurely detonated an explosives-laden vehicle near the new Turkish embassy compound in the capital, Mogadishu.
Ryan Lochte will be summoned to give testimony in front of Brazil's Justice Department in Rio de Janeiro over his since-recanted claim he and other U.S. Olympic swimmers were robbed at gunpoint, a police official told Fox News on Thursday.
The ashes of Polish fighter ace Capt. Kazimierz Sporny, who is credited with downing at least five enemy planes in the World War II Battle of Britain, have been brought from London to western Poland for a military burial.
A dramatic 10-second video released this week by aid worker Kayla Mueller's family showed the woman pleading for help shortly after Islamic State fighters kidnapped her in Syria in 2013.
Burundi police say they have detained eight people accused of being members of a WhatsApp group for defaming the government and insulting public institutions.
Critics of local French bans on full-body burqini swimsuits have filed legal challenges, forcing the country's highest administrative authority to investigate Thursday whether such bans are actually legal, as photos and video surface showing police forcing Muslim women to disrobe.
Rescue crews aided by sniffer dogs dug through crumbled homes in Italy Thursday looking for earthquake survivors as the death toll reached 250 and officials anguished over how to secure their ancient towns and modern cities from the country's highly seismic terrain.
Egyptian security officials say a police driver kidnapped this week has been publicly shot dead in Sinai by suspected militants from the local Islamic State affiliate.