(Reuters) - President Barack Obama appointed a former White House adviser as Ebola "czar" on Friday and named officials to bolster the response to the disease in Texas, the center of U.S. Ebola cases, as the death toll in three West African nations topped 4,500. The White...

(Reuters) - American-led forces have sharply intensified air strikes in the past two days against Islamic State fighters threatening Kurds on Syria's Turkish border after the jihadists' advance began to destabilize Turkey . The coalition had conducted 21 attacks on the...

By Humeyra Pamuk and Daren Butler MURSITPINAR, Turkey/ISTANBUL, (Reuters) - A merican-led forces have sharply intensified air strikes in the past two days against Islamic State fighters threatening Kurds on Syria's Turkish border after the...

The United States and its allies held top-level military talks Tuesday as Washington hailed signs of progress in the fight against jihadists following a wave of air strikes in Syria. American-led warplanes hammered Islamic State (IS) group militants with 21 bombing raids near...