U.S. acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan said on Monday he had approved sending a carrier strike group and bombers to the Middle East because of indications of a “credible threat by Iranian regime forces,” but did not provide any details on the underlying intelligence. U.S....

Sri Lankan security authorities have either killed or arrested all the jihadists responsible for the Easter suicide bombings that left 257 people dead, police chief Chandana Wickramaratne said Tuesday. Police have accounted for every individual involved in the April 21 attacks on three...

Ninety protesters have been killed in protest-related violence across Sudan since demonstrations against ousted president Omar al-Bashir erupted in December, a doctors' committee said Monday. The death toll given by the committee is higher than the official figure of 65 killed in such...

Iran may announce retaliatory moves against the United States on the one-year anniversary of the U.S. pullout from the nuclear deal Wednesday, the semi-official news agency ISNA reported. The U.S. unilaterally withdrew on May 8, 2018 from the 2015 multilateral deal known as the Joint...