While troop levels have steadily risen in Iraq, the number of contractors hired by the Pentagon has increased eightfold.
It’s technically President Museveni’s last term, as Uganda’s constitution bars anyone over 75 from the presidency.
The Medium Extended Air Defense System might be part of the country’s solution to growing spillover from the Syrian civil war.
While the Islamic Republic might be a theocracy, there are still major issues at stake as Iranians head to the polls Friday.
Russia and Ukraine’s latest rift isn’t over the ongoing conflict in eastern Ukraine or economic policy. It’s about a song.
The administrative region of China has rolled out a plan to bolster its economy amid China's slowdown and rising political tensions.
About 28,000 refugees fleeing violence in Syria have arrived in Canada or have been approved to travel there since November.
The dictator and his family were airlifted by the U.S. to Hawaii on Feb. 28, 1986. His senator son may win the country's No. 2 post in the May elections.
In bombing raids meant to reopen an ISIS-controlled road, 20 of the terror group’s fighters and four civilians were killed.
With refugee arrival numbers to Italy and Greece topping 100,000, Germany has started to send Afghani asylum seekers back home.
Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari said unauthorized revisions had completely changed the 2016 national budget from the document he proposed.
As South Korea and the U.S. prepare for a joint military exercise next month, North Korea has warned of a pre-emptive attack.
Support for a British exit from the European Union has waned since Britain's prime minister negotiated a compromise, a poll shows.
Italy has allowed combat American drones to fly out of the Sigonella air base in Sicily for defensive operations against the Islamic State group in Libya and North Africa.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry also said that there's a contingency plan that could be implemented if the ceasefire deal doesn't hold.
French newspaper Le Monde reported that President François Hollande had authorized “unofficial military action” in the conflict-ridden North African state.
After five years of fighting, the vague terms of a deal negotiated by the U.S. and Russia leave gaps that terrorist groups are likely to exploit.
The incident comes just days after American forces carried out their first airstrikes of the year on one of the militant group’s bases in the city of Sabratha.
The country’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei said voters are expected to help form a parliament that can take a stand against the United States.
The attacks, believed to have been carried out by asylum-seekers, triggered protests against German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s welcoming stance toward refugees.
As China’s foreign minister defended sovereignty over disputed islands, a hawkish state newspaper said U.S. naval missions will lead to “more military installations.”
Earlier this month, South Korea announced its decision to suspend work at the joint industrial complex with North Korea following Pyongyang’s Feb. 9 rocket launch.
The Tara Air Viking 9N-AHH Twin Otter plane was on an 18-minute flight when it lost contact with the control tower.
Adm. Harry Harris said China was escalating the situation in the South China Sea with new deployments.
The CDC said several of the new U.S. cases of the virus involved pregnant women whose only known risk was sexual contact with an ill male.
The arrival of advanced missile batteries and radars in the region have alarmed U.S. Navy top brass.
The plane disappeared from radar nearly two years ago, and its search period is set to end in March.
The detainee population at the controversial detention facility has dropped from hundreds of individuals to 91. Who are the prisoners left?
Human Rights Advocates said the president's plans to shut down the detention center at Guantanamo Bay were a step in the right direction. But has he gone far enough?
Instances of femicide, sexual assault and domestic abuse are high in El Salvador. Lawyers and judges who are trained to deal with violence against women will be the prosecutors.