Westerners join Kurds fighting Islamic State group in Iraq
By VIVIAN SALAMA and BRAM JANSSEN As Kurdish fighters gathered around a fire in this damp, frigid mountain town in northwestern Iraq, exhausted from battling the Islamic State group, a…
By VIVIAN SALAMA and BRAM JANSSEN As Kurdish fighters gathered around a fire in this damp, frigid mountain town in northwestern Iraq, exhausted from battling the Islamic State group, a…
“Lift Every Voice and Sing” was publicly performed first as a poem as part of a celebration of Lincoln’s Birthday on February 12, 1900, by 500 school children at the…
By DAVID ESPO and ALAN FRAM Republicans newly in charge of Congress challenged President Barack Obama at both ends of the Capitol on Tuesday, lining up in the House to…
By JONATHAN LEMIRE Mayor Bill de Blasio used his annual State of the City speech Tuesday to outline an ambitious plan to build hundreds of thousands of new affordable housing…
A video released online Tuesday purportedly shows a Jordanian pilot captured by the Islamic State extremist group being burned to death. The Associated Press was not immediately able to confirm…
By FRANCES D’EMILIO Italy’s new president, Sergio Mattarella, assumed office Tuesday with a ringing call to the nation to root out organized crime and corruption devouring public resources and solve…
By ARON HELLER and DAVID RISING Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday called for scrapping a U.N. commission, which is tasked with investigating potential war crimes committed last summer…
By LORI HINNANT and PAUL SCHEMM The man stands furtively on a street corner near the broad avenue cutting through Tunis, his face masked by a hoodie, his tense eyes…