Some villagers in Nigeria are taking the fight against Boko Haram into their own hands.
President Barack Obama will meet with Syrian opposition leader Ahmad Jarba during his current visit to Washington, the White House said Tuesday.
Nigeria says is ready to open a dialog with the terrorist organization Boko Haram in hopes of securing the release of the nearly 300 girls abducted by the group in April.
Pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine are calling this weekend's referendum a victory.
Patients waited more than a week to see their doctor in the United Kingdom nearly 50 million times last year.
This week the world saw some of the first images of the Nigerian school girls since they were kidnapped nearly a month ago.
As Nigeria works to rescue the 276 girls kidnapped by Boko Haram - a former Nigerian colonel warns the terror group is a monster that needs to be dealt with.
The North Korean government has unleashed more inflammatory rhetoric against the United States, this time for rampant human rights abuses.
International pressure is mounting on the government of Nigeria to do more to find the 276 school girls kidnapped by the terrorist group Boko Haram.
More than 175 American Christian leaders have signed a pledge of solidarity supporting persecuted Christians in other parts of the world.