More than 1,000 ancient relics and mosaics were saved from Islamic State group militants when staff at the museum of the Syrian city of Raqqa managed to hide them underground and in storehouses, Syrian officials and experts said Thursday. The Syrian Kurdish-led administration in...

LONDON (AP) — Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Conservative Party has won a thumping majority of seats in Britain's Parliament — a decisive outcome to a Brexit-dominated election that should allow Johnson to fulfill his plan to take the U.K. out of the European Union next month....

China and the U.S. are zeroing in on an agreement that would mark a major milestone in their nearly two-year trade war, President Donald Trump claimed Thursday. "Getting VERY close to a BIG DEAL with China. They want it, and so do we!" Trump said on Twitter. The trade dispute between...

Seven Iraqi fighters were killed north of Baghdad Thursday when a suicide bomber attacked a base of an armed group led by Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr, the army said. The attack, which also wounded three fighters, was carried out by "a suicide terrorist," it said, using its standard term for...