A top commander of the pro-Russia insurgency in eastern Ukraine said Saturday that Ukrainian forces have seized a key town, leaving the rebel region's largest city of Donetsk surrounded.
For years, Kurdish officials have beseeched the Obama administration to let them buy U.S. weapons. And for just as long, the administration has rebuffed the Kurds, America's closest allies in Iraq.
Chinese authorities are accusing a Canadian missionary couple of spying.
President Barack Obama's new military strategy in Iraq amounts to trying to contain, not destroy, the Islamic militant group that now controls much of the country's northern region.
The jihadist army Islamic State captured hundreds of Yazidi women Friday even as the U.S. begins an airstrike campaign against the terrorist group.
The young children of imprisoned Pastor Saeed Abedini sent President Obama an emotional video, asking him to help bring their father home.
NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden has been given permission to stay in Russia for three more years.
The Kurds in northern Iraq, America's strongest ally in the Middle East, are being threatened by the jihadist army the Islamic State, which has taken over large parts of the country.
President Barack Obama is wrapping up a three-day Africa Summit at the White House on Wednesday.
Nancy Writebol, the second American missionary to contract Ebola, arrived Tuesday at an Atlanta hospital, where doctors will monitor her closely.