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Iraqi forces launched an airborne assault on rebel-held Tikrit on Thursday with commandos flown into a stadium in helicopters, at least one of which crashed after taking fire from insurgents who have seized northern cities.

A group dubbed “anti-feminist” by its critics is addressing rape culture and public policies to deal with it.

The exercise will bolster military ties between China and its neighbors but Beijing's stance on Asian maritime issues is unlikely to change.

The controversial pundit wrote a column on Wednesday where she claimed interest in soccer was the sign of moral decay.

Deryl Nelson says he started dancing about a year into his job at Chattanooga’s Coolidge Park.

In an effort to assuage concerns that certain equipment given to the Syrian opposition might ultimately fall into enemy hands, rebels would be vetted before receiving assistance, a White House statement said, according to the new agency.

The crew of two women and one man spent 105 days testing a bio-regenerative system for life in space.

Senator famously asked during Watergate hearings, “What did the President know, and when did he know it?”

Reports surfaced Thursday that Syrian warplanes attacked Sunni militants in Iraq.

An increase in poppy cultivation in Afghanistan contributed to the rise.

The World Meteorological Organization put high odds on an El Niño event this fall.

The sentences handed down to the three Al-Jazeera journalists drew worldwide condemnation.

EU leaders would discuss possible sanctions moves on Russia at their summit in Belgium starting Thursday, Kerry added.

The move marks a change in U.S. strategy in the Philippines since JSOTF-P was formed in 2001 to fight off Islamist terrorists.

Al Qaeda-linked group al Shabaab said it killed several guards and soldiers in the attack in town of Bulobarde.

Park has suffered a sharp drop in public support since the April 16 ferry tragedy that killed more than 300 people.

Local authorities also reportedly announced arrest warrants for 25 people and issued detention orders for 14 others.

The country's military leaders plan to form an interim government by August and conduct general elections within a year.

A Commerce Department report had many wondering whether the U.S. is headed back to the worst economic times since the Great Depression.

ISIS has loads of cash, new guns, vehicles and aircraft, but will it do the group any good?

Incumbent U.S. Sen. Thad Cochran courted Democrats to narrowly avoid being shut out by a tea party challenger.

Two important court rulings in the U.S. Wednesday expand same-sex marriage, but Indiana's top attorney is trying to block it.

China's judicial rules remain fickle and arbitrary but in this case the country's highest court saved one woman from execution.

Two days after the FBI announced it had rescued 168 children from sex-trafficking, the bureau hosted a Twitter discussion about how young people can be saved from such a fate.

"A state may not deny the issuance of a marriage license ... based solely upon the sex of the persons in the marriage union," the court ruled.

The Iraqi prime minister feels he has more to lose than to gain by working with Sunnis and Kurds. Does the U.S. have any leverage?

Americans likely think of JFK's rumored dalliance with Marilyn Monroe and Bill Clinton's Lewinsky fling when they think of presidential affairs but adultery in the White House goes way back.

A man inside the Duroy Hotel in Beirut, Lebanon blew himself up during a security raid Wednesday.

For weeks it seemed as though the country would fall into a full-fledged civil war. Could this election save Libya? Probably not, analysts say.