Wiiliam Oeri/Nation Media/Gallo Images/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) — Ahmed Abdi Godane, the top leader of the Somali militant group al-Shabab, has been killed in a U.S. military airstrike in southern Somalia, the Pentagon confirmed Friday. U.S. officials are hailing Read More
ABC News(NEWPORT, Wales) — Hours after the Ukrainian government and pro-Russia rebels agreed to a ceasefire after five months of fighting, President Obama told reporters at the NATO Summit in Newport, Wales, Friday that, “Our alliance is fully united in Read More
JPL-Caltech/NASA(NEW YORK) — Heads up, Earthlings. We live in a cosmic shooting gallery with a huge asteroid headed our way this weekend. It will only be a close call — but close enough to remind us how vulnerable we are to asteroids hurtling through Read More
iStock/Thinkstock(WASHINGTON) — A second rescue operation to free the American hostages held by the terror group ISIS is still a possibility, former military sources said, even though a secret mission into Syria in July may have tipped America’s Read More
Bethany Clarke/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — A new round of U.S. and European sanctions against Russia could be announced soon, with NATO leaders looking to respond more forcefully to the crisis in Ukraine while reassuring allies with a new rapid-response force based in Read More
iStock/Thinkstock(MIAMI) — The Coast Guard in Florida has seized about $93 million worth of cocaine during two separate operations off the coasts of Colombia and Panama. Coast Guard Officer Joshua McElhaney says that once the smugglers “spotted the Read More
iStock/Thinkstock(JERUSALEM) — An Israeli military court indicted a Palestinian man allegedly involved in the kidnapping and murder of three Israeli teenagers in June. Hussam Qawasmeh, dubbed by officials as a terrorist, was charged with organizing and funding the Read More
iStock/Thinkstock(AMERLI, Iraq) — The United Nations dispatched a humanitarian team to the northern Iraqi city of Amerli on Wednesday, sending personnel to the area for the first time since a two-month siege was lifted. UNICEF estimates 3,000 children have been Read More
iStock/Thinkstock(WASHINGTON) — The U.S. believes that about a dozen Americans are fighting with ISIS in Syria, part of a larger group of more than 100 Americans who have joined various rebel groups in the country. The new estimate was provided by the Pentagon Read More
iStock/Thinkstock(WASHINGTON) — The Pentagon expressed concern on Thursday about the growing — and strengthening — numbers of Russian forces fighting inside the borders of Ukraine, as well as those massed along the border between the two Read More
