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Airstrikes by a U.S.-led coalition have so far targeted ISIS in Syria and steered clear of Bashar Assad's forces.

The bird was re-discovered in 2002 near the city of Palmyra, which was captured by ISIS last week.

Iran has long refused access to its military sites to United Nations inspectors, who say they need to evaluate Iran's nuclear program to see if it could develop weapons.

Chinese state media say conflict is inevitable if Washington provokes Beijing by continuing overflights above disputed islands in the South China Sea.

Activity was likely to be thin this session, as UK and U.S. markets are shut on Monday.

In her first comments since the beginning of the Southeast Asia migrant crisis, Sheikh Hasina says migrants are as guilty as the traffickers.

Did you know it was originally called Decoration Day?

The legendary jazz composer, conductor and pianist died May 24, 1974.

U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter took aim at the will of Iraqi troops fighting the Islamic State group in Ramadi last week.

The U.S. is optimistic a deal to set up a free trade zone across the Pacific will be concluded soon, with sensitive issues likely to be ironed out when its Congress resumes sessions.

The Israeli Prime Minister publicly expressed his gratitude to the Obama administration for blocking a U.N. nuclear weapons conference.

Charged with heroin distribution in a case linked to "Orange Is the New Black," a Nigerian senator-elect has been detained in Lagos.

James DeGale and Andre Dirrell meet on Saturday in a battle of top contenders.

However, the Islamic State group conceded the scenario is "far-fetched" in the latest issue of its propaganda magazine Dabiq.

Hillary Clinton voted to send U.S. combat troops to Iraq in 2002, but now, while on the 2016 presidential campaign trail, she says she does not want them to return there.

Violence between gang members and police has claimed more than 400 lives this month alone.

Women are fast entering the nascent marijuana industry, long dominated by men. Some call it a social movement, "like suffrage or civil rights."

Diplomats reported progress in the fourth round of talks between the two countries since the announcement that they would seek to restore relations.

The convoy of Shi'ite militia fighters and Iraqi army forces set out toward areas controlled by Islamic State group militants.

The carcasses of five petroleum-soaked pelicans have been recovered from California's Santa Barbara coastline, the first documented animal fatalities from the spill.

The former CEO of Sands China claims he was wrongfully dismissed, and alleges the company was engaged in graft, and had ties to organized crime.