President Barack Obama said Thursday that he would keep 9,800 U.S. troops in Afghanistan through next year. "I have decided to maintain our current posture of 9,800 troops in Afghanistan through most of next year, 2016," Obama announced at a White House pess conference, citing security risks by...

An anonymous source within the U.S. government leaked a trove of documents regarding the nation’s unmanned drone program in foreign nations that was published Thursday by whistle-blowing website The Intercept. Specifically, the documents and slides cover the U.S. military’s drone program in...

An Egyptian court confirmed Thursday the death sentences against 10 people charged with forming an al-Qaeda-linked cell, a judicial source said. The defendants are among a group of 68 people accused of forming an al-Qaeda-linked cell, including the brother of al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri....

Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu has said that the Syrian regime, Daesh and the PKK made an agreement in May to attack the anti-Assad opposition forces and share Turkey's border with Syria. "Daesh, PKK and the [Syrian] regime sat around a table on May 28 in Hasakah [in northeastern Syria]...