Claudio Ranieri was named FIFA's best men's coach of 2016 Monday, after leading Leicester City to a fairytale Premier League title triumph. The Italian beat out France's Zinedine Zidane, who steered Real Madrid to the Champions League title in his first year as manager and Fernando Santos,...

A U.S. warship fired warning shots at the weekend at four Iranian Revolutionary Guard vessels that approached it at high speed in the Strait of Hormuz, U.S. defense officials said Monday. The shots fired by the destroyer USS Mahan Sunday put an end to the incident, which U.S. officials...

The U.N.'s agency for Palestinian refugees Monday appealed for emergency funds to provide aid to nearly half a million Palestinians affected by the war in Syria. The United Nations Relief and Works Agency, UNRWA, said almost all the estimated 450,000 Palestinian refugees still inside Syria...

Iraqi forces will recapture east Mosul from ISIS within "a few days," a senior officer said Monday. Baghdad's forces have retaken a series of areas in eastern Mosul since launching an operation to recapture the city on Oct. 17, but the west remains under ISIS control. East Mosul will be...