Angry protests broke out Wednesday in the heartland of deposed Syrian ruler Bashar al-Assad's Alawite minority, a war monitor ...

A "terrorist act" sank the cargo ship that went down in international waters in the Mediterranean this week, the Russian ...

An Azerbaijan Airlines passenger jet crashed on Wednesday in western Kazakhstan, with 35 people feared dead, officials said.

Pope Francis called Wednesday for "arms to be silenced" around the world in his Christmas address, appealing for peace in the ...