An Iranian Kurdish rebel group received military training in weapons and explosives from U.S. and European advisers as part of the international program backing Kurds in the war against the Islamic State group in Iraq, the group's commander told The Associated Press.
The dispute over Gabon's presidential election has intensified as opposition candidate Jean Ping is mounting a legal challenge and demanding a recount.
One of several people accused of running a western Colorado outfitting business that captured and maimed mountain lions and bobcats to make hunting easier for clients has been sentenced to three months in federal prison.
Four people suspected of being "radical Islamists" have been detained in a terrorist investigation stemming from the discovery of a car parked next to Paris' Notre Dame Cathedral with six gas canisters inside.
More than 400 inmates barricaded themselves inside a Florida prison Wednesday night, requiring corrections officers from five other prisons to help put down the riot, The Miami Herald reported.
The Lady Chablis, the transgender performer who became an unlikely celebrity for her role in the 1994 best-seller "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil," died Thursday in Savannah.
After the success of “O.J.: Made in America” and “The People v. O.J. Simpson,” the unsolved murder of JonBenet Ramsey is getting not one, not two, but at least six different shows this year.
A female student shot and injured another female student and then killed herself inside a Texas high school bathroom on Thursday morning, Brewster County Sheriff Ronny Dodson said.
A Louisiana university says the first group of nine retired chimpanzees from a Louisiana research lab has arrived at a new animal sanctuary in the north Georgia mountains.
Atlanta's airport is embarking on a major project to extend the tunnel for the "plane train," which carries passengers between terminals, to the ground transportation area.
Police say they had to put down a mother bear that wandered into a northern Ontario restaurant with her cubs and started knocking over products in a storage room.