President Barack Obama acknowledged Wednesday that he would not deploy a game-changing force in Syria to end the brutal fighting since U.S. national security was not at stake. Obama’s comments came at a town hall conversation hosted by CNN, at a military base in Fort Lee, Virginia....

Russian or Syrian warplanes knocked two hospitals out of service in the besieged rebel sector of Aleppo on Wednesday and ground forces intensified an assault in a battle which the United Nations said had made the city worse than a slaughterhouse. Two patients died in one of the hospitals and...

An Ankara court on Wednesday remanded in custody a man involved in a knife incident outside the Israeli embassy in the Turkish capital last week, judicial sources said. The suspect -- identified earlier by Ankara Governorship as 38-year-old Konya-born Osman Nuri Caliskan -- confessed during...

At least two people were reportedly shot at a South Carolina elementary school on Wednesday. It's unclear if the victims are teachers, students or others. Police are responding to the incident at Townville Elementary School. Fox Carolina News reported that a suspect is in custody....