At least 24 al-Shabaab militants were killed in a U.S. airstrike in central Somalia on Wednesday, according to the U.S. military. The airstrike hit near Shebeeley in the central region of Hiran, said a statement by U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM). “At this time, it was assessed no...

More than 3,000 additional troops will be deployed to the U.S.'s southern border with Mexico, defense officials told CNN on Thursday. The additional forces will be joining the 2,300 troops already stationed there and will fulfill a request made by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS)...

A U.S. federal court in Washington, D.C., late yesterday found the Syrian government culpable in the 2012 killing of Marie Colvin, a correspondent for the U.K. newspaper Sunday Times, and ordered the government to pay US$302.5 million to her family, AFP reported today. According to the opinion,...

Venezuela's self-proclaimed acting president Juan Guaido ruled out the possibility of civil war in his country, saying the overwhelming majority of his compatriots wanted Nicolas Maduro to step down. In an interview to Spain's El Pais newspaper published Thursday, Guaido repeated an appeal...