MURSITPINAR, Philippe Alfroy- Islamic State militants closed in on Syria's third-largest Kurdish town on Sunday as tens of thousands of people fled in terror across the border into Turkey. The UN...

WASHINGTON, Kerry Sheridan- A NASA spacecraft that aims to study the upper atmosphere of Mars and reveal how its climate changed over time is poised to begin orbiting the Red Planet on Sunday. After...

SURUC, Bulent Kilic- Tens of thousands of Syrian Kurds flooded into Turkey on Saturday, fleeing an onslaught by the jihadist Islamic State group that prompted an appeal for international...

BEIRUT- A suicide bomber killed a number of people Saturday at a Hezbollah checkpoint near Lebanon's border with Syria Saturday, hours after news that the Syrian branch of Al-Qaeda had executed a...

UNITED NATIONS- US Secretary of State John Kerry brought together 35 countries at the UN Security Council on Friday to build support for Iraq's new government and the campaign to confront jihadists....

NEW YORK- Spoof Nobel prizes that honor the humor in science were handed out at Harvard University Thursday, celebrating the physics of stepping on a banana skin and the neuroscience behind spotting...

LONDON, James Pheby- Britain's press on Saturday heaved a sigh of relief over Scotland's decision to stay in the United Kingdom, but any thoughts of triumphalism were extinguished by concerns about...

WASHINGTON- Ultrasounds are just as effective as CT scans at finding kidney stones and should be used as a first step to avoid unnecessary radiation exposure, US researchers said Wednesday. The study...

WASHINGTON- Congress on Thursday passed US President Barack Obama's plan to train and arm moderate Syrian rebels to battle Islamic State jihadists, a key plank of his strategy to smash the militants....