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The United States on Thursday denied delivering any threats to Ali Abdullah Saleh over what Washington suspects is his role in destabilizing Yemen. An official source at Saleh's General People's Congress (GPC) party said on Wednesday that the U.S. ambassador...

Air strikes by a U.S.-led coalition set up to fight Islamic State hit the al Qaeda-linked Nusra Front in northwest Syria overnight, rebels and residents said on Thursday. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a monitoring group, said the strikes...

North Korea's state television showed leader Kim Jong Un on Thursday walking with a limp but without a cane in the clearest indication yet that he was recovering from an unconfirmed health problem that had kept him sidelined for...

As Jordan joins a military campaign against Islamic State militants in Syria, tensions in Jerusalem pose a potentially bigger risk to a nation only slightly scathed by the turmoil sweeping the Middle East. The U.S. ally has been alarmed and...

Libya's Supreme Court on Thursday declared the internationally recognized parliament as unconstitutional, in a ruling likely to fuel further chaos in the north African oil producing nation. The decision came a day after gunmen stormed Libya's biggest oilfield, shutting down...

An al Qaeda leader in Yemen was among those killed in what a Yemeni official called a "counterterrorism strike," the latest such strike at a time of intensified fighting in the Arab nation. The Yemeni official said Wednesday that those...

President Barack Obama walked into the White House nearly six years ago with a robust Senate majority and a promise to change politics. Now, he's heading into his final years of office estranged from Democrats in the minority on Capitol...

Decrypted communications between Indian Mujahideen (IM) and al Qaeda and testimony from suspects have triggered alarm among intelligence officials in New Delhi: the groups appear to be working together to launch major attacks in the region. The officials told Reuters...

The United States continued its assault on Islamic State militants this week, conducting 14 airstrikes in recent days in Syria and Iraq, U.S. Central Command said in a statement on Wednesday. From Monday through Wednesday, U.S. military forces launched three...

A Republican tide ripped the Senate away from Democrats Tuesday, according to CNN projections, giving the GOP full control of Congress and the power to pin down President Barack Obama during his last two years in office. The thumping win...