The United States is open to a dialogue with North Korea on denuclearizing the Korean peninsula, but the onus is on Pyongyang to take "meaningful actions" toward that end and to refrain from provocative acts, the U.S. State Department said on Wednesday. State Department spokesman Mark Toner...

ISIS has lost most of the land it once held in Iraq and Syria but hopes to cling to scraps of a self-declared caliphate, a US official said Wednesday. Since summer 2014, when ISIS was at its peak just ahead of the US-led war on the group, the extremists have lost 65 percent of the land...

A mayor who was handily defeated in his bid for a sixth two-year term said Wednesday that he believes his loss was due to his support for a plan to bring refugees from Syria and Iraq to the economically depressed Vermont city. Rutland Mayor Christopher Louras lost Tuesday's four-way race to...

Tunisian Foreign Minister Khemaies Jhinaoui on Wednesday visited Baghdad to discuss regional developments -- especially the fight against terrorism -- with Iraqi officials. Jhinaoui was received upon his arrival by Iraqi President Fuad Masum, according to a statement released by Masum’s...