Russia has deployed an advanced anti-missile system to Syria for the first time, three US officials tell Fox News, the latest indication that Moscow continues to ramp up its military operations in Syria in support of President Bashar al-Assad.
The towns and villages of Haiti's southwestern peninsula battened down as best they could early Tuesday for a nightlong lashing by life-threatening winds, rains and storm surge unleashed by powerful Hurricane Matthew.
A senior commander in Syria's rebranded Al Qaeda affiliate, who was close to the global network's top leader Ayman al-Zawahri, was targeted in an airstrike Monday, according to the Pentagon.
Heavy rains from the outer bands of Hurricane Matthew drenched Haiti and Jamaica on Monday, flooding streets and sending many people to emergency shelters as the sprawling Category 4 storm steamed toward the two Caribbean countries.
Russia has deployed an advanced anti-missile system to Syria for the first time, three US officials tell Fox News, the latest indication that Moscow continues to ramp up its military operations in Syria in support of President Bashar al-Assad.
The International Committee of the Red Cross says one of its workers, a French-Tunisian woman, has been released after nearly a year in captivity in Yemen The Red Cross said in a posting on its official Twitter account late Monday that Nourane Houas was en route to Oman after being freed.
The United Nations says that one peacekeeper was killed and several others wounded after attacks on a camp in Aguelhok, in Mali's northern Kidal region.
Mexican authorities say they have arrested one suspect in the kidnapping of a Spanish woman whose body was found last month in neighboring Mexico state.
The head prosecutor in the Mexican state of Yucatan says a Canadian photographer was slain by a hired driver who robbed her and tossed her body by a roadside.