Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell said Thursday that Congress was moving ahead with building a wall at the U.S. border with Mexico that would cost $12 billion to $15 billion. McConnell and House of Representatives Speaker Paul Ryan did not say how Congress would pay for the wall that...

A prominent Egyptian human rights lawyer says he has been banned from leaving the country, the latest in a series of travel bans imposed on rights activists. Negad Borai, who runs the United Group for Law, says he was heading to Jordan to visit his wife when airport authorities informed him...

Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson said Thursday Britain was "open-minded" about the timescale for Syrian President Bashar Assad relinquishing power and did not rule out joining Russia in military action against ISIS militants. Speaking to British lawmakers, Johnson also questioned whether the...

A counter-terrorism unit in the Libyan capital Tripoli said it suspected Saturday's car bomb near the recently reopened Italian embassy was planted by backers of the powerful Libyan National Army (LNA) based in the eastern part of the divided country. The blast occurred in central Tripoli...