Twitter said Thursday it was restoring access to deleted tweets from politicians, saying it would help "bring more transparency to public dialogue." Earlier this year, the U.S. messaging platform had blocked access to the deleted items by a website called Politwoops, which collected...

 At least 32 people, including 8 children and 5 women, were killed on Sunday in apparent US-led coalition air strikes on the Islamic State's stronghold of Raqqa province, activists and monitor said. He said the wave of raids hit IS bases to the north, east and...

President Barack Obama Wednesday slammed American “hysteria” about the security threat posed by Syrian refugees as Republicans sought to freeze a program to resettle them in the wake of the Paris attacks. Seizing upon fears one of the attackers may have entered Europe posing as a Syrian...

A Russian airliner that crashed in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula broke up in mid-air, an official of a Moscow-based aviation agency said on Sunday after visiting the disaster site, but stressed it was too early to draw conclusions from this. Russian authorities also ordered...