Attorney General Eric Holder will be heading to Ferguson, Missouri to meet with community politicians and leaders Wednesday. At a press conference addressing both the crisis in Missouri and in Iraq, President Obama said Monday the Department of Justice ...

According to Ukranian rebel leaders, the eastern city of Donetsk is surrounded by Ukranian troops and the separatists are now willing to accept a ceasefire in order to prevent a humanitarian catastrophe. The so-called prime minister of the Donetsk separatists, ...

The newly elected Libyan House of Representatives held its first session on Saturday, though it was far from the country's two biggest cities, Tripoli and Benghazi. Those cities have been turned into battlegrounds by armed factions over the past two ...

The doctor leading Sierra Leone's fight against an out-of-control Ebola outbreak has died after being infected with the virus. Sheik Umar Khan was called a "national hero" by the government after treating more than 100 patients. Just a few days ago he caught ...

The first 16 coffins with remains of victims from the Malaysia Airlines plane that was shot down last week are headed for the Netherlands. The coffins, which are being flown on an air-force transport plane, departed from Kharkiv on Wednesday. All 298 people ...

This Gaza war has brought a new level of American awareness of the pain of Palestinian civilians. And we have Jon Stewart to thank. When I interviewed The Daily Show's Jon Stewart two years ago for a documentary I co-directed, The Muslims Are Coming!

McDonald's Corp. and Yum Brands Inc., which owns KFC, Taco Bell, and Pizza Hut, have reportedly been purchasing expired meat from their Chinese supplier. An investigative report by a Shanghai television news station revealed that Husi Food Co.

For the first time since Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 was shot down on Thursday, fighting broke out between the Ukrainian military and pro-Russian rebels on Monday. Ukrainian military tanks reportedly launched an assault in Donetsk in an attempt to break ...

The weapons rarely hit their targets, and the death toll has been lopsided against them. But by showing their rockets can hit all of Israel, Hamas has already notched a victory. You wouldn't know it from the images of Israeli jets bombing Gaza. But for Hamas ...

After a man was killed by a shell fired across the border from Ukraine into a Russian town, Moscow told Kiev Sunday there will be "irreversible consequences." There have been cross-border shootings before, however this looks like the first time Russia has ...

As Hamas militants continue to launch hundreds of missiles into Israel from Gaza, the Israel Defense Force's air and sea assault response has claimed 101 Palestinian lives as of Friday afternoon, according to the Gaza Health Ministry. The ministry says many ...

Former World Bank official Ashraf Ghani was declared the winner of last month's presidential election in Afghanistan in preliminary results released Monday. The election was fraught with allegations of corruption. The Independent Election Commission said ...

Facebook is facing increasing heat for its social experiments on users without their direct consent. After initially receiving flak last week for a study conducted via Facebook on emotional state transference, the practices of Facebook's Data Science team, ...

The banks are back in court. BNP Paribas, a French bank long investigated for violating American money laundering laws, pleaded guilty to falsifying business records and conspiracy on Monday. For helping clients avoid U.S. sanctions on Iran, Sudan, and ...

The 27-year-old Sudanese woman who was sentenced to death for marrying a Christian is now seeking shelter in the U.S. Embassy in Khartoum. Meriam Ibrahim had been sentenced to hang for apostasy last month under a law forbidding Muslims to convert ...

The Republican primary in Mississippi was won by the candidate with black support because African American voters were smart enough to intervene. They should do every time. Conventional wisdom says black voters are the most reliable Democratic voting ...

Three Al Jazeera journalists have been jailed in Egypt on trumped-up charges of collaborating with the Muslim Brotherhood. The network vows an international campaign for their release, and press freedom. Seismic shock waves rattled the New York ...

While the White House has not publicly called for Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki to step down, pressure is ramping up on both sides of the aisle for Maliki to go before any U.S. military assistance is considered. A spokesman for Maliki said Thursday, ...

The former commander of coalition forces in Iraq warned against getting embroiled in a long-running religious battle and noted Baghdad's government needed to be seen as fair by all Iraqis. LONDON, England — David Petraeus, the former commander of ...

Continuing its sweep through Iraq, Islamic militants from ISIS have now laid siege to Iraq's largest oil refinery. The Beiji refinery is located 155 miles north of Baghdad and produces roughly a quarter of Iraq's oil output. The attack began Tuesday night and ...