The Ukrainian government has released video footage of 10 men it claims are Russian soldiers, just hours before the Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko was scheduled to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin at a regional meeting in Minsk, Belarus.
President Barack Obama has authorized surveillance flights over Syrian territory, the first step in the process of launching airstrikes on Islamic State positions in Syria.
The scenes of police aiming sniper and assault rifles at peaceful protestors in Ferguson, Missouri have sparked a national conversation and debate on the merits of arming police with excess military equipment from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
A prison riot in Brazil led to the prisoners taking over control of the prison as they killed four inmates, beheaded two, and held two guards hostage.
A series of mysterious airstrikes that had been claimed by a retired Libyan general have turned out to be the work of Egypt and the United Arab Emirates.
The Ukrainian government has claimed that Russia sent another column of armored vehicles into Ukraine, while Russia announced plans for a second convoy of aid.
Large crowds gathered in Ferguson, Missouri to mourn Michael Brown, the unarmed teenager who was killed by police officer Darren Wilson Aug. 9.
Numerous media reports say that British intelligence agencies have identified the British Islamic State jihadist filmed murdering the U.S. journalist James Foley.
Burger King is the latest in a series of high profile companies that have discussed or carried out corporate inversions, whereby a company relocates is headquarters outside the United States so that it can pay less taxes.
An Oregon teenager received a sentence of 11 years for torture of one of his classmates that included carving a swastika into his forehead.
Egypt has been plagued by rolling blackouts for much of the summer, leading to public discontent similar to that which led to the overthrow of Mohammed Morsi in 2013.
A new report suggests that the Islamic State knew of the impending U.S. Special Forces operation to rescue the murdered journalist James Foley before they had even parachuted into Syrian territory.
A suicide bomber blew himself up inside the headquarters of Iraq's intelligence agency one day after a sectarian massacre has brought the possibility of establishing an inclusive Iraqi government into doubt.
More than a month after Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 crashed into a field in eastern Ukraine, the Malaysian victims have been returned to Malaysia for burial services.
More than half of a convoy of Russian trucks laden with aid has returned to Russia from Ukraine after dropping off its supplies in the besieged Ukrainian city of Luhansk.
09 Aug '24 16:35PM
