Hundreds of Westerners, including a dozen or more Americans, are fighting with the Islamic State (IS) and posing a security challenge to the Western countries, the U.S. State Department said on Monday.
U.S. President Barack Obama on Wednesday called Saudi King Abdullah about his plan to fight the Islamic militants, just a few hours before he addresses the American public and the world on the Islamic State threat.
U.S. President Barack Obama told top lawmakers Tuesday that he has the authority he needs to take action against Islamic State (IS) militants.
U.S. President Barack Obama announced this week extra military personnel would be sent to protect U.S. diplomatic facilities after Islamic State terrorists overran vast areas in north Iraq. The move is unlikely a pre-curser to resending massive combat troops, but air raids may be intensified.
U.S. and Iranian officials are set to resume talks Thursday in Geneva over Tehran's controversial nuclear program, the State Department said Wednesday.
U.S. President Barack Obama on Tuesday authorized sending some 350 additional military personnel to Iraq, hours after the Islamic State militant group released a video showing the beheading of a second American journalist.
U.S. House intel committee head blasts White House over Islamic State
China's State Internet Information Office (SIIO) is mandated to regulate and supervise what is spread on the Internet, China's State Council reiterated on Thursday.
The United States is worried about a possible future attack from the Islamic State terror group, but it remains unclear just how much of a threat the radicals pose to the country.
The United States is worried about a possible future attack from the Islamic State terror group, but it remains unclear just how much of a threat the radicals pose to the country.
The Secretary General of the international police organization (Interpol) on Thursday condemned in the strongest terms the murder of U.S. journalist James Foley by the Islamic militant group.
While militants of the Islamic State (IS) are making fresh gains in northern Iraq, Baghdad was plunged into political infighting after Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki announced his decision late Sunday to sue President Fuad Masum for alleged constitutional violation.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, who arrived in Afghanistan Thursday night, has met presidential candidates Abdullah Abdullah and his opponent Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai separately.
A senior U.S. diplomat was still in Bahrain hours after he was ordered to leave the Middle East country, U.S. State Department said on Monday.
Chinese State Councilor Yang Jing on Saturday stressed the importance of implementation of government policies, saying inspection teams from the the State Council, China's cabinet, will be dispatched nationwide to check the implementation in a serious manner.
New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo on Wednesday announced a statewide initiative to combat the rise of heroin use, as heroin sales and related heroin drug overdoses have become a widespread problem across the state.
Zhang Zheying, deputy chief engineer of Metallurgical Corporation of China Limited, has been expelled from the Communist Party of China (CPC) and public office for "serious disciplinary and legal violations."
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