British Prime Minister David Cameron's bid to start air strikes against the Islamic State group in Syria could be bolstered by a U.N. Security Council resolution adopted on Friday calling on able states to fight the militants, said Britain's U.N envoy. "It's a call to action to...

Six tourists and their pilot were killed when their helicopter crashed into a heavily crevassed glacier in New Zealand during bad weather Saturday, police said. The sightseeing helicopter plunged into the Fox Glacier, a popular tourist site on the west coast of the South Island, with weather...

Syrian regime forces have been reported as expanding their ground operations on Thursday in the Bayırbucak Turkmen area of the rural town of Latakia. Turkey’s Anadolu news agency reported local sources as saying that regime forces, with the support of Russian air strikes, conducted...

Malian special forces stormed a luxury hotel in Bamako on Friday after Islamist gunmen took 170 people including many foreigners hostage in the capital of the former French colony, which has been battling rebels allied to al Qaeda for several years. "They've penetrated inside the hotel....