Local authorities outside Damascus say regime forces have cut off their town from a surrounding rebel-held Eastern Ghouta, isolating 20,000 residents with no access to aid. A member of the local council of Harasta said Wednesday that residents have been in underground shelters for long...

Candidates of Sierra Leone’s ruling and main opposition parties are heading for a presidential runoff after March 7 elections failed to produce a first-round winner. Chief electoral commissioner Mohamed N’Fah Alie Conteh said Tuesday that opposition candidate and former military junta...

A decade after the Pentagon began confronting rape in the ranks, the U.S. military frequently fails to protect or provide justice to the children of service members when they are sexually assaulted by other children on base, an Associated Press investigation has found. Reports of assaults and...

   Syrian regime jets resumed strikes on several rebel-held towns in southern Daraa province Tuesday, rebels said, a day after Washington warned that such bombing would violate a U.S.-Russian "de-escalation zone". Two rebel sources said jets bombed the towns of Hrak, Busr al...