Afghanistan's failure to sign a key security deal poses a threat to that nation and the region, according to Sen. John McCain, R-AZ, and several other U.S. Senators.
The 52 passengers trapped on a research ship stuck for more than a week in the Antarctic are rescued not by sea but by air.
South Sudan's warring factions meet in Ethiopia Thursday hoping to head off a civil war in the world's newest nation
China could be facing a possible debt crisis according to an official audit report released on Monday.
Twelve people died in Nigeria after attacks on two Christian villages this weekend.
President Barack Obama has finally decided what the United States should do to defeat the terrorists of the Islamic State (ISIS) army in the Middle East.
Sudan's Islamic government shut down a 500-member church in the capital city of Khartoum.
Lebanese Christians are taking up arms to protect themselves from a potential threat by the Islamic State (ISIS).
The U.S. military said Sunday it launched airstrikes around Haditha Dam in western Iraq, targeting Islamic State insurgents there for the first time in a move to prevent the group from capturing the vital dam.
Clashes broke out Sunday outside the main rebel-held city in eastern Ukraine, throwing the freshly forged cease-fire agreement between government troops and Russian-backed separatists into further doubt.