MOSCOW (AFP) -  Russia on Tuesday slammed Britain's accusations of involvement in the poisoning of a former double agent as an attempt to discredit Moscow and demanded that London give it access to the nerve agent. The Russian foreign ministry summoned the British ambassador to a...

A decade after the Pentagon began confronting rape in the ranks, the U.S. military frequently fails to protect or provide justice to the children of service members when they are sexually assaulted by other children on base, an Associated Press investigation has found. Reports of assaults and...

NEW YORK (reuters)- A U.S. citizen was sentenced to 45 years in prison Tuesday for supporting the militant group Al-Qaeda and helping to prepare a 2009 car bomb attack on a U.S. military base in Afghanistan, less than the life sentence sought by prosecutors. Muhanad Mahmoud Al-Farekh,...

WASHINGTON (AFP)- Outgoing US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson did not speak to President Donald Trump before he was sacked Tuesday and has not been given a reason for his ouster, a top aide said. "The secretary did not speak to the president this morning and is unaware of the reason,...