A week after a radical Muslim group captured key cities across Iraq, the United States is once again sending troops and warships to the war-torn country.
Al-Shabab terrorists in Kenya killed nine more people overnight Tuesday.
Kenyan authorities say Islamic terrorists from Somalia are responsible for a massacre at the coastal resort city of Mpeketoni, about 60 miles from the Somali border.
The United States will assist Nigeria in its fight against the radical Islamic Boko Haram.
An un-named man is suing a church in Tulsa, Oklahoma, for publishing his baptism announcement, saying the notice put his life in danger.
Pope Francis criticized Europe Sunday for its low birth rates, poor treatment of the elderly, and an increasing number of young people who neither work or study.
The Iraqi town of Tal Afar is the latest to be captured by members of the Islamic group ISIS.
After a decades-long dispute between Arabs and Kurds over the oil-rich northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk, it took just an hour and a half for its fate to be decided.
Pro-Russian separatists shot down a military transport plane Saturday in the country's restive east, killing all 49 service personnel on board.
With fighters from ISIS closing in on Iraq's capital city of Baghdad, President Barack Obama is weighing options on how to counter the insurgency.