U.S.-led coalition and Iraqi forces plan to launch an operation in  Mosul  as early as April to retake the city from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, or ISIL, a U.S. official said Thursday. U.S. troops have been engaged in a months-long...

CAIRO (AP) — An Al-Jazeera English journalist who is getting to know his six-month-old son for the first time after spending more than a year in Egyptian prisons said Tuesday he was optimistic that a retrial beginning next week would exonerate him. Baher Mohammed, 31, was...

 European Union finance ministers piled pressure on  Greece  on Tuesday to remain in an international financial rescue program as the euro fears of disruption when Athens' credit lines expire in 10 days time. But as he returned to meetings on other, routine, matters with...

President Barack Obama on Friday condemned the “brutal and outrageous murders” of three Muslim-Americans in the U.S. state of North Carolina. “No one in the United States of America should ever be targeted because of who they are, what they look like, or how they...