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Nearly 2,000 Iraqi troops were killed across Iraq in the month of November, according to newly released UN figures, as they battle to force ISIS extremists from the country.

Don't blink. You might miss another jump in oil prices.

"The year in pictures" treks across the globe, looking back on the events that shaped 2016.

President Barack Obama will sign an extension of the Iran sanctions bill passed in Congress this week, White House spokesman Eric Schultz said Friday, although he called it "not necessary."

Thousands of refugees and migrants, most fleeing violence in the Middle East, mass at the sealed-off border, chanting "Open! Open!" They are desperate to cross into Hungary, but a razor-wire fence, temporary blockade and a line of riot police stand in their way.

An iron gate with the notorious Nazi slogan "Arbeit Macht Frei" stolen from a German concentration camp site most likely has been recovered.

The number of new HIV infections 'is not declining' and young women the world over are still at risk.

Is there any truth behind claims that the Kremlin has been using fake news to undermine the US presidential race? CNN's Jill Dougherty investigates.

The season finale of "Parts Unknown" was shot in Rome. "It's a very beautiful show. The most beautiful we've ever made, I think," says Anthony Bourdain.

Menacing black smoke hangs over the town of al-Qayyara. The air here is poison.

He's the smiling, anti-refugee presidential candidate hoping to sweep into power at Sunday's Austrian election.

North Korea has furiously criticized United Nations sanctions, accusing Security Council members of being puppets of the United States.

Hundreds of thousands of Indonesians took to the streets Friday to protest Jakarta's embattled governor.

More than two decades after her son was executed for rape and murder, Zhang Huanzhi has finally proven his innocence.

CNN's Phil Black visits an Iraqi town left to suffer months after ISIS set several oil wells on fire.

Just before LaMia Flight 2933 crashed into a hillside near Medellin, Colombia, a crew member onboard told air traffic controllers, "The plane is in total electric failure and without fuel," according to two sources familiar with the investigation who heard audio recordings.

A charter airplane with 77 people on board, including players from the Brazilian soccer team Chapecoense, crashed near Rionegro, Colombia, on Monday, November 28. At least 71 people were killed.

It's a case of he said, he said between two of the world's most powerful men.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said his country is ready to cooperate with the new US administration, as he gave his annual state-of-the-nation address Thursday in Moscow.

The violence this week on the campus of the Ohio State University has, like previous attacks before it, provoked an outcry of fear and calls for greater security measures to protect Americans against terrorism. And yet, like other incidents before it, this attack was carried out by a terrorist whose inspiration to act reportedly came from within, not beyond, America's national borders.