In apparent reference to Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s statement in support of waterboarding suspected terrorists, CIA Director John Brennan said he would resign rather than implement the practice.
In what appears to be a victory for families of Palestinian terror victims, Facebook on Thursday closed dozens of social media pages belonging to the notorious Hamas terror group.
The Chinese government is believed to have hacked into computers at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. in 2010, 2011 and 2013, including the workstation of then-FDIC Chair Sheila Bair, a congressional report says.
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said in an interview last week that she didn't want to think about the possibility that Trump would be president and Trump responded saying, 'Her mind is shot — resign!'
Ignoring Iran's own belligerence, President Hassan Rouhani threatened to restore the hostile elements of the country's nuclear program if the Western signatories to last year's agreement do not uphold their end of the deal.
As home secretary, the 59-year-old May has the tough task of calming the country and global financial markets after the upheaval that followed the Brexit referendum.
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An Islamic State news agency has confirmed the assassination of Omar al-Shishani, a top ISIS military commander on the U.S. list of Specially Designated Global Terrorists.
President Barack Obama spoke during an interfaith memorial service for the victims of the Dallas police shooting, urging Americans to reject hate and embrace empathy.
After a tribunal in The Hague, Netherlands, rejected China's claims to sovereignty over the South China Sea in a landmark ruling, China threatened to take military action.
A senior US diplomat deleted an untold number of work emails, apparently unaware that even routine messages received and sent by a top government official should be saved, according to a Senate investigation released Tuesday.
A bipartisan Senate investigative report released this week has found that US State Department grants to OneVoice, meant to further peace in the Middle East, were instead used by Victory 15 to unseat Israel's Prime Minister Netanyahu during the 2015 elections.
In a remarkable victory for the Philippines, a five-member international tribunal in The Hague ruled that China's claim to sovereignty over the South China Sea have no legal basis.
Two Italian commuter trains collided Tuesday in the southern region of Puglia, killing a dozen people and wounding dozens of others, firefighters said.
A jail inmate trying to escape from a western Michigan courthouse wrested a gun from an officer Monday, killing two bailiffs and injuring two more people before he was fatally shot by other officers, a sheriff said.
The Republican Party has reportedly reinstated language endorsing an “undivided” Jerusalem into the party’s platform ahead of its national convention in Cleveland later this month.
Ken Ham, president of Answers in Genesis, the ministry that built the massive 510 foot-long, $100 million ark, said the project is based on the biblical story of Noah and will stand as proof that the stories of the Bible are true.
Britain's next prime minister, Theresa May, has spoken of her strong support for Israel, saying that 'the modern state of Israel is the fulfillment of many generations of struggle.'
Two sets of South African siblings appeared in court Monday on accusations that include plotting to blow up the US Embassy and various Jewish institutions in South Africa.
The United States will send 560 more troops to Iraq to transform a freshly retaken air base into a staging hub for the long-awaited battle to recapture Mosul from Islamic State (ISIS) terrorists, Defense Secret...
The field of candidates to replace David Cameron had already been narrowed from five to two, but Andrea Leadsom's decision to withdraw from the race now leaves May as the sole candidate.
Micah Johnson had material for explosives and talked of using homemade bombs during a standoff with police before he was killed, indicating he could have inflicted more damage with more time.
Israeli authorities have discovered plane wreckage pieces believed to belong to the EgyptAir flight that crashed with 66 passengers and crew members on board into the Mediterranean Sea in May.
Human remains retrieved from the crash site of EgyptAir Flight 804 suggest there was an explosion on board that may have brought down the aircraft in the east Mediterranean, a senior Egyptian forensics official said on Tuesday.
Prosecutors in Germany are seeking only a six-year prison sentence for 94-year-old Reinhold Hanning, a former Auschwitz death camp guard being tried in Germany as an accessory to murder.
Terrorism? An ISIS attack? A mechanical failure? The world waits expectantly for developments and news on the EgyptAir flight from Paris to Cairo with 66 passengers and crew that crashed in the Mediterranean Sea Thursday morning.
In what appears to be a response to the Hezbollah International Financing Prevention Act, a US law which aims to sanction international financial institutions that knowingly facilitate Hezbollah’s activities, the Banque du Liban has announced it will comply.
The Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act has triggered a threat from Riyadh to pull billions of dollars from the US economy if the bill is enacted.
A turning point in the battle on ISIS? Brett McGurk, President Obama's envoy to the anti-ISIS coalition, says the terror organization is losing battles and turf, though it may resurface in other areas.
ISIS terrorists recently entered Gaza with the support of Hamas, and the organization is helping the ISIS fighters receive medical care in Gaza's hospitals.
In an attempt to address the needs of Gaza's civilians and help Israel provide them with basic humanitarian assistance, the US has announced a five-year plan, during which it will distribute millions of dollars.
The Islamic State (ISIS) terror organization has the capability to stage a Paris-style attack in the US, using local cells to strike in multiple locations and inflict dozens of casualties, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper warned.
The Islamic State (ISIS) terror group is looking to increase revenue from taxation, smuggling antiquities "and potentially kidnap for ransom" after losing some territory and oil revenue following the destruction of significant oil facilities.
70 years after the Holocaust, Reinhold Hanning told the Detmold state court that he had never spoken about his wartime service in Auschwitz, even to his family, but wanted to use his trial as an opportunity to set the record straight.
Families of the victims of the Sept. 11 terror attacks say they are "greatly distressed" that the Obama administration is working to derail legislation giving them the right to sue the government of Saudi Arabia for any role that elements of the Saudi government may have played in the attack.
The pressure on Obama to reveal the Saudi connection to the 9/11 attacks is working, while Saudi threats to hit the US economy if the connection is revealed still looms.
Saudi Arabia has threatened that it will sell off hundreds of billions of dollars’ worth of American assets held by the kingdom if Congress passes a bill that would allow the Saudi government to be held responsible in American courts for any role in the 9/11 terror attacks.
Ernst T., a 93-year-old German who served as a guard at the Auschwitz death camp, escaped justice for the last time when he died last week - just days before going on trial.
To prevent the site of Hitler's birthplace becoming a popular hot spot for neo-Nazis, Austrian authorities are seeking to forcibly expropriate the century-old house.
Addressing speculation that the Obama administration may relax the prohibition that prevents US dollars from being used in transactions with Iran, Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs Thomas Shannon said the US will not make such a concession.
In another step taken by Arab states against Hezbollah, an Egyptian satellite company has announced it has stopped providing services to Hezbollah’s Al-Manar network for provoking sectarian strife.
Amnesty International reports a rise in executions in Iran, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, while other countries in the world made progress toward abolishing the death penalty.
The US is working to stay ahead of cyber attacks on its critical infrastructure, as Iran and terror organizations cultivate their cyber terror capabilities.
In what appears to be an attempt to appease Iran, Obama is considering new sanctions relief - an extra reward that is not required by the nuclear deal - and which experts say would have "devastating" consequences.
The Muslim terrorist attacks on Brussels airport highlighted deep security flaws there and which Israel has the solutions for after years of experience fighting Palestinian terrorism.