The killing of four US soldiers in Niger has highlighted the geo-strategic role the mainly desert west African nation plays in the American fight against Islamist groups in Africa.

"There are other teams that operate in Niger. There was one that had something to do with this operation," Joint Staff Director Lieutenant General Kenneth McKenzie said.

An HIV-positive man accused of intentionally infecting 30 women is set to learn the verdict on Friday in his trial for allegedly targeting victims for unprotected sex over nearly 10 years.

Two American mariners and their canine companions have been rescued after drifting off course and spending months stranded in the Pacific Ocean, the US Navy said Thursday.

When the Korean War ended in 1953 millions of people were dead and South Korea was a smoking wasteland, Seoul having changed hands four times over the course of the conflict.

Nine Gambian former state security agents accused of the 2016 murder of an opponent of ousted president Yahya Jammeh pleaded not guilty Thursday.

Spanish lawmakers are poised to adopt extraordinary measures Friday to seize control of rebel region Catalonia in a bid to frustrate its independence drive, though separatists are likely to push back.

US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson urged Mynmar's army chief Thursday to help end the violence in Rakhine state that has forced hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims to flee.

The US maintains the world's largest concentration of billionaire wealth — but Asia is quickly catching up.

The US government on Thursday released a mammoth, long-awaited trove of secret files on the assassination of president John F. Kennedy, but withheld others for further review.

Two models predict who will win the games in Week 8 of the NFL.

The US maintains the world's largest concentration of billionaire wealth — but Asia is quickly catching up.

Amazon, Microsoft, and Google all reported earnings on the same day. Here's what we learned about the state of affairs in the cloud war.

Cofounders of Snapchat and Facebook are among America's richest young people, according to Forbes.

The US National Archives just released thousands of previously classified documents related to the investigation into President John F. Kennedy's assassination.