German defence spending will rise next year but then drop off again as a percentage of GDP, Berlin said Monday, in news expected to anger US President Donald Trump. Trump has repeatedly attacked Germany and other NATO allies for falling far short of meeting the target of spending two...

Facebook said Monday it would begin directing some of its funds to support US journalism efforts to so-called "news deserts" with little or no media coverage. The leading social network said its Journalism Project Community Network would begin taking proposals in May from areas lacking in...

 U.S.-backed fighters said they had taken positions in Daesh's (ISIS) last enclave in eastern Syria and airstrikes pounded the tiny patch of land beside the Euphrates River early on Monday, a Reuters journalist said. Smoke rose over the tiny enclave as warplanes and artillery...

Falling bombs raised smoke over Islamic State’s last enclave in east Syria on Sunday, obscuring the huddle of vehicles and makeshift shelters to which the group’s self-declared “caliphate” has been reduced. Air strikes and artillery began hitting the area and smoke billowed...