Philippine security forces dropped more bombs Saturday on a southern city where they have been battling Islamist militants for five days, vowing no let up despite the start of Ramadan. President Rodrigo Duterte declared martial law across the southern third of the Philippines in response to...

France's new President Emmanuel Macron will hold delicate talks with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin Monday with the two countries harboring longstanding differences over Ukraine and Syria. Coming just three weeks after an election in which the Kremlin was widely seen as backing...

President Donald Trump on Friday decried an attack on Coptic Christians in Egypt that left at least 28 dead, calling on allies to band together to defeat terrorism. "The bloodletting of Christians must end, and all who aid their killers must be punished," he said in a statement issued by his...

At least 15 Afghan soldiers were killed when Taliban fighters attacked their base in Kandahar, officials said Friday, in the third major insurgent assault this week on the military in the southern province. The assault in Shah Wali Kot district late Thursday comes after hundreds of...