Iraqi fighters change tactics as the U.S.-led coalition provides more advisers, and airstrikes intensify.
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The executions were carried out despite allegations that trial evidence was obtained using torture.
Diplomats from 70 countries expressed support for a two-state solution.
The Syrian capital is in crisis as at least 4 million people are cut off from the water grid.
The head of the school defended the trip as a way to teach children about the indigenous Sami culture and to show where food comes from.
Its leader told an audience in Salzburg that he wanted to see a ban of Muslim symbols, something like the Austrian law that bans Nazi symbols.
Some workers are putting in hundreds of hours of overtime, leading to heart attacks and suicides. So the government is finally taking action.
Church communique says the two talked about safeguarding “holy places” in Jerusalem.
Britain’s exit from the E.U. could mean big changes for its only continental enclave.
Kerry's last hours in office will be spent trying to save the “two-state solution.”
The secretary of state met a former Viet Cong member who took part in the 1969 ambush that proved pivotal in his life, both personal and political.
The Chinese leadership is also increasingly willing to challenge U.S. military and economic power.
Russia is tempering expectations for better U.S. ties.
Cyberattacks are rising. People’s awareness about digital security is low.
Antony Armstrong-Jones acquired a title after marrying into royalty, then went through headline-grabbing divorce.
A day of scheduled prayers is mostly quiet, though one cleric says relocating the embassy could “engulf the region in the flames.”
The Kremlin outreach is a marked shift after the Obama administration had been excluded from the process.
The case has become a rallying point for public health workers in India's fight against the growing problem of drug-resistant diseases.
The Chinese forced nearly 7,000 pilgrims to go home before the 10-day event featuring the Dalai Lama.
From the Wires
Facebook says it’s introducing measures to tackle the spread of fake news in Germany, months before the country holds a national election.
Sending a forceful message to Israel’s prime minister and the incoming Trump administration, dozens of countries called Sunday on Israel and the Palestinians to revive work toward long-elusive peace — including an independent Palestinian state.
Police in the Swiss capital of Bern prevented a pro-Tibet protester from setting himself on fire Sunday on the sidelines of a demonstration against the visit of Chinese President Xi Jinping, officials said.
Twenty-seven inmates have died in eruptions of violence in two northern Brazilian prisons, officials said Sunday as they quelled the latest in a string of prison disturbances across the country in which more than 100 people have died within two weeks.
Egyptian prosecutors have thrown out a case brought by an elderly Christian woman against several members of a Muslim mob who stripped off her clothes and paraded her naked through the streets, her lawyer said Sunday.
With eager anticipation, the Kremlin is counting the days to Donald Trump’s inauguration and venting its anger at Barack Obama’s outgoing administration, no holds barred.
