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The Islamic State may have taken possession of a Syrian military surface-to-air missile system when the terrorists recaptured the historic city of Palmyra, the top U.S. general in Iraq told Pentagon reporters Wednesday.

The state morgue received 58 bodies from the Pacific resort city of Acapulco, Iguala and Chilpancingo since Dec. 6.

The collapse of U.S. military relations with Russia could prove to be one of the most consequential aspects of President Barack Obama's national security legacy.

A former Afghan governor on Tuesday claimed the country's ex-warlord vice president ordered his kidnapping before a team of thugs raped him with a Kalashnikov rifle.

Chinese businessman Wang Jianlin has announced he's looking for somebody new to run his $91.8 billion business empire -- after his only son said he didn't want to take the reins.

Iran's semi-official ISNA news agency is reporting that the country's authorities have detained 120 people in a private party in a coffee shop in Tehran.

A Bulgarian judge has been named to lead a special European Union court created to prosecute ethnic Albanian rebels for crimes committed during and in the immediate aftermath of Kosovo's war for independence.

Israeli police say a Palestinian wielding a screwdriver has stabbed and lightly wounded two Israeli police officers in the Muslim quarter of Jerusalem's Old City.

The U.S. Embassy in Skopje is rejecting allegations in pro-government Macedonian media that the ambassador has met, or intervened with, electoral officials following the country's parliamentary election.

Tanzanian police have searched the home and office of the co-founder of a whistleblowing website after he was arrested for not disclosing the identities of people who posted there.

Up to a thousand people gathered Wednesday in Sarajevo — the Bosnian city that survived a brutal 44-month siege during the Balkan wars of the 1990s — to rally against the carnage in Syria.

Ten-year-old Maggie Momen clings to life in a Cairo hospital four days after a suicide bomber blew himself up at a Sunday Mass packed with women and children.

The U.S. Marine Corps announced Wednesday it would temporarily ground all Japan-based MV-22 Osprey aircraft after a crash Tuesday six miles off the coast of Okinawa.

Some 250 Greek and Turkish Cypriots marched in support of an accord reunifying their ethnically divided island ahead of a summit that will likely decide whether a deal on Cyprus is possible.

Tens of thousands of Palestinians, including hundreds of gunmen, are rallying in Gaza in support of the militant Islamic group Hamas that rules the territory, on the 29th anniversary of its founding.

Officials on Gotland, Sweden's militarily strategic island in the Baltic Sea, said Wednesday they likely will turn down a Russian request to rent harbor space after the government warned it could harm the country's defense and political interests.

Volkswagen says it's going to speak more English and help more women reach for top positions as it shakes up its corporate culture in the wake of a diesel emissions scandal.

The newspaper report did not say whether the alleged donation was registered with electoral authorities.

One of the Catholic Church's most prominent pro-democracy voices in Latin America has died in Brazil.