Islamist militants raided the headquarters of a regional military taskforce in central Mali Friday afternoon, opening fire with rockets and guns and attempting to infiltrate the base, the defence ministry said. There were no immediate details on casualties at the compound in Sevare used...

 The French cement giant Lafarge was charged on Thursday with complicity in crimes against humanity and financing terrorists, for allegedly paying millions to jihadists, including the Islamic State group, to keep a factory open in war-torn Syria. The company, whose Syrian...

At least five people are dead and several others “gravely injured” after a gunman opened fire Thursday in the newsroom of the Capital Gazette in Annapolis, Maryland. “There are five fatalities that we know of,” Anne Arundel County Acting Police Chief Bill Krampf said at a press...

Former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev says the next month's U.S.-Russian summit could become a historic event. Gorbachev was quoted by the Interfax news agency as saying Thursday that if Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Donald Trump make steps toward cooperation,...