US official: IS leader believed dead in US military assault
ROBERT BURNS, DEB RIECHMANN and ERIC TUCKER
Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the shadowy leader of the Islamic State group who presided...
Anti-government protests rage in Iraq, 7 killed
QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA
Associated Press
BAGHDAD (AP) — At least seven more Iraqi protesters were killed Saturday in clashes with security forces in Baghdad and the...
Russian agent Butina returns to Moscow, wants no part of US
JIM HEINTZ
Associated Press
MOSCOW (AP) — The Russian woman convicted in the United States of being a Russian agent returned to Moscow on Saturday...
3 die in wildfires in Mexico’s Baja California
TIJUANA, Mexico (AP) — Mexican authorities say three people have died in wind-whipped wildfires in the northwestern state of Baja California.
Mexico's civil defense agency...
Protests rattle the postwar order in Lebanon and Iraq
QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA, JOSEPH KRAUSS and ZEINA KARAM
Associated Press
BAGHDAD (AP) — Tens of thousands of people, many of them young and unemployed men, thronged...
Venezuelans buy gas with cigarettes to battle inflation
SCOTT SMITH
Associated Press
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Motorists in socialist Venezuela have long enjoyed the world's cheapest gasoline, with fuel so heavily subsidized that...
Australia’s iconic rock Uluru scaled by final climbers
ULURU, Australia (AP) — Nature seemed to be siding with indigenous Australians' demand for Uluru to be respected as a sacred site on Friday...
Esper: US troops, armored vehicles going to Syria oil fields
LOLITA C. BALDOR
Associated Press
BRUSSELS (AP) — The U.S. will send armored reinforcements into eastern Syria to bolster defenses against a potential move by...
Bolivia’s Morales: We won presidential vote in first round
CARLOS VALDEZ
Associated Press
LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — Bolivia's Evo Morales declared himself the outright winner Thursday of an election in which he was...
Chile protesters: Government concessions not enough
EVA VERGARA
Associated Press
SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — A new round of clashes broke out Thursday as demonstrators returned to Chile's streets, dissatisfied with economic...