Beirut, May 17 (AP/UNB) - Syrian government troops on Thursday flushed out rebels who had stormed a prison compound in the northern city of Aleppo in a bid to free hundreds of political prisoners inside.The forced retrea...

Dhaka, May 17 (UNB) - Nigeria's army has begun operations against militant Islamists in the north-east, military officials say.They say troops raided parts of a game reserve in Borno state where the Boko Haram group has ...

Washington, May 17 (AP/UNB) - U.S. lawmakers are ready to question the ousted head of the federal tax authority as Congress holds its first hearing Friday on the tougher scrutiny the IRS gave tea party and other conserva...

Anchorage, May 17(AP/UNB) - A remote Alaska volcano continues to erupt, spewing lava and ash clouds. The Alaska Volcano Observatory said Thursday a continuous cloud of ash, steam and gas from Pavlof Volcano has been see...

Joint Base Lewis-Mcchord, May 17(AP/UNB) - An Army sergeant has been sentenced to life in prison without parole for the 2009 killings of five fellow service members at a combat stress clinic in Iraq. A military judge, A...

Washington, May 17 (AP/UNB) - President Barack Obama, seeking to regain his footing amid controversies hammering the White House, named a temporary chief for the scandal-marred federal tax agency Thursday and pressed Con...

New York, May 17 (AP/UNB) - Activist Cynthia Brown, one of the guiding forces at the international advocacy group Human Rights Watch, has died at age 60 after fighting cancer. Brown started with Human Rights Watch as a ...

United Nations, May 17 (AP/UNB) - Armed men broke into a U.N. outpost in a buffer zone separating Israel and Syria and abducted three U.N military observers, the U.N. peacekeeping chief said Thursday. Herve Ladsous told...

Beijing, May 17 (AP/UNB) - Chinese authorities say rainstorms that battered southern China this week have killed 33 people and left 12 people missing. The Chinese Ministry of Civil Affairs website says at least nine pro...

BAGHDAD, May 16 (AP/UNB) - Car bombs struck Shiite neighborhoods of the Iraqi capital and a northern city on Thursday, killing 16 people, while gunmen in Baghdad shot dead the brother of a Sunni lawmaker, officials said....