The U.S. military attacked the Islamic extremist group Al Shabab in Somalia on Monday.
President Obama has ordered more troops to Iraq to protect U.S. diplomatic posts after the gruesome beheading of another American journalist by the Islamic State.
Backed by American air support, Iraqi government and Kurdish Peshmerga forces opened a corridor to the besieged city of Amerli.
Pro-Russian rebels attacked a Ukrainian border guard vessel patrolling in the Azov Sea, the first such incident since fighting began last April.
Northern Iraq is facing a refugee crisis, with an estimated 182,000 Yazidis fleeing to Kurdistan to escape the brutal Islamic State (ISIS) army.
London raised the terror level in the UK from "substantial" to "severe." Meanwhile, President Obama is drawing criticism for admitting he has no strategy for fighting ISIS.
U.S. airstrikes in Iraq are helping to weaken ISIS. But lawmakers are calling on the White House to do more as concerns grow about the threat the jihadist army poses to the West.
The European Union is giving Russia a one-week ultimatum to scale back its intervention in Ukraine or face additional economic sanctions.
The two year anniversary of Pastor Saeed Abedini's imprisonment in Iran is next month and with it a new focus by the U.S. Government to see him and other Americans released.
Russian-supported separatists have firmly gained control of Novoazovsk, a strategically placed town in Ukraine.