Hurricane Matthew left 15 dead in the U.S. and hundreds more in the Caribbean before it moved off the east coast Sunday as a post-tropical cyclone. Matthew formed near the Windward Islands on Sept. 28 moving north to become a hurricane once it arrived in the eastern Caribbean, reaching...

Islamic State militants captured several villages from Syrian rebels in a counter-attack near the Turkish border that forced the foreign-backed insurgents to retreat, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported. The rebels, whom Turkey has supported with tanks and air strikes, had been...

Seven teenagers were feared dead Saturday, a day after they went missing when their boat capsized on a river in Indonesia, officials said. None have been found despite a major rescue operation. The wooden boat was carrying 25 Islamic boarding school male students across the Bengawan Solo...

Hurricane Matthew killed almost 900 people and left tens of thousands homeless in Haiti earlier this week before plowing northward on Saturday over waters just off the U.S. southeast, where it caused flooding and widespread power outages. The number of deaths in Haiti, the poorest country in...