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....

French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday announced initiatives to protect biodiversity and the environment, following the publication of landmark UN report on the state of the natural world. "What is at stake is the very possibility of having a habitable Earth," Macron said after meeting...

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...

Fatma Emin's life changed forever when her husband died in the Syrian war, killed by ISIS in a land mine attack. It triggered a series of events that would bring her to Jinwar, a village built and inhabited by women -- a refuge for Syrian women and their children fleeing a rigid family...