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Coalition forces, including American military operatives, killed a senior ISIS leader when conducting an operation on the Iraqi-Syrian border Wednesday, officials said.

Ukraine is ordering its troops to be on the "highest level of combat readiness" Thursday, amid growing tensions with Russia over Crimea.

Imagine a presidential election campaign in which a bombastic candidate campaigns by insulting people, and by making promises and threats that sound so outlandish that people think, surely, he must be exaggerating.

Britain's Metropolitan Police has revealed it is investigating claims that a female tennis player was deliberately poisoned during this year's Wimbledon.

A 4th century mosaic recently discovered in Cyprus is stunning in its beauty and very rare.

America and Canada are the world's largest trade partners -- even larger than U.S. and China.

Thirty-six years separate the youngest and oldest US Olympians competing at the games in Rio. Table tennis player Kanak Jha is 16, and equestrian Phillip Dutton is 52. Dutton, who has competed in six Olympics, won his first medal this week in individual eventing.

A planned burkini-only day for Muslim women at a water park in France has been canceled by city officials after threats were sent to the event's organizers.

Russia has just marked 18 months of a deep and painful recession.

At least 21 people were killed and five others were injured in a pipeline explosion in central China on Thursday, officials said.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan appeared to give the United States an ultimatum, demanding the extradition of a cleric he believes is behind the failed July 15 coup attempt.

Police in the UK have launched an investigation after a drone was involved in a near-miss with a passenger plane off the country's south west coast.

President Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines is putting strain on the US-Philippines alliance, writes southeast Asia political analyst Mathew Davies.

It needs it. The economy has slumped since the Arab Spring in 2011. Political unrest and a series of currency devaluations have scared off foreign investors.

It's likely to prove one of Rio 2016's most memorable moments and it has nothing to with the winning of medals.

Four years after Julian Assange took refuge at the Ecuadorian embassy in London, Sweden may finally get a chance to question him.

Foreign companies run an "extreme risk" of being linked to modern forms of slavery in both countries, according to a new report from Verisk Maplecroft.

In reaching for the gold, many will falter and fail. Some will cheat.

Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte called the US ambassador to his country a "gay son of a bitch" in a speech, prompting US diplomats to raise the issue with their Filipino counterparts in Washington.