Iraqi security forces expect to take full control of Mosul in the next hours as Daesh's defensive lines collapse, state TV reported on Saturday. Air strikes and artillery salvos pounded the extremists' last bastion in the city as black smoke billowed over it, a Reuters TV crew said. "We...

The US Missile Defense Agency said Friday it would soon test an anti-ballistic missile system, days after North Korea demonstrated its arsenal was capable of striking parts of Alaska. The Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system to be tested is designed to intercept and destroy...

Leaders of the world’s 20 biggest economies (G20) pledged Friday to increase efforts to fight terrorism, by improving intelligence sharing, combatting the financing of terrorism and its propaganda on the internet. German Chancellor Angela Merkel told a news conference that the leaders had...

Russian President Vladimir Putin told U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday that Moscow had not meddled in the U.S. elections, and Trump accepted it, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. "U.S. President Trump said that he heard firm assertions from Russian President Putin that it is not...