iStock/Thinkstock(SEOUL, South Korea) — In the wake of a massive joint military exercise between the U.S. and South Korea, North Korea is stepping up its threats. According to Pyongyang’s state news agency, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un announced on Tuesday Read More
Guido Bergmann/Bundesregierung via Getty Images(BERLIN) — George and Amal Clooney are lending their star power to raise awareness about the refugee crisis and sharing new video of their recent meeting with Syrian refugees. “You forget that these are people who Read More
iStock Editorial/Thinkstock(BERLIN) — Authorities in Berlin, Germany, believe a car bomb was the cause of an explosion during the city’s morning rush hour Tuesday. A car exploded around 8 a.m. local time, while traveling into the city center, killing the Read More
iStock/Thinkstock(DAMASCUS, Syria) — The U.S. now believes that senior ISIS military commander Abu Omar al-Shishani, known as Omar the Chechen, has died from injuries sustained in a March 4 airstrike in northeast Syria. American officials had earlier expressed Read More
Sean Gallup/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) — As President Obama continues to make moves that will open up Cuba, he plans to leave the embargo for the next president to handle, he said in an interview airing Monday with CNN Español senior political anchor Juan Read More
Sean Gallup/Getty Images(MOSCOW) — Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered his country’s military to begin its withdrawal from Syria, saying the intervention has “largely achieved its objectives.” In a statement, the Kremlin says Putin called Read More
iStock/Thinkstock(JERUSALEM) — An Israeli hiker found a rare Roman coin that is nearly 2,000 years old and is only the second coin of its kind to ever be discovered, authorities say. The hiker, Laurie Rimon, discovered the coin in the northern Galilee area of Israel Read More
NASA(NEW YORK) — Here’s a view you don’t see very often: NASA and NOAA’s Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) captured stunning images of last week’s solar eclipse as it swept across the Pacific Ocean. A solar eclipse occurs when the moon, Read More
Stocktrek Images/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — A Russian rocket carrying a European orbiter and an experimental landing vehicle blasted off from Kazakhstan Monday on a seven-month journey to reach Mars, where it will begin the first phase of its mission to search for signs Read More
iStock/Thinkstock(WASHINGTON) — The Kurdish Peshmerga captured an ISIS fighter from Alexandria, Virginia, in northern Syria Monday, according to a local commander and a senior U.S. official. Muhammad Jamal Amin mistakenly walked into a Peshmerga-controlled area Read More
