The U.S. Defense Department, reacting to North Korea's statement that it plans to test an intercontinental ballistic missile, said Tuesday it was confident in its ability to protect U.S. allies and the U.S. homeland from threats from Pyongyang. "We have a ballistic missile defense ......

Albanian civic organizations have started a 10-day campaign to collect funding for children in Syria. The initiative was launched Tuesday by the Interreligious Cooperation Center and the Albanian Red Cross in the central city of Elbasan, with the local mosque contributing the first amount of...

Israeli forces destroyed 13 structures -- including a school -- in a village in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday, according to Palestine’s official WAFA news agency. The structures in the Bedouin village of Khirbet Tana east of the city Nablus were deemed illegal by the Israeli...

The Republican-led U.S. Congress begins a new session Tuesday where it will start laying plans for enacting President-elect Donald Trump's agenda of tax cuts, repeal of Obamacare and the rollback of financial and environmental regulations. With Trump set to be sworn in as president on Jan....