A hastily scheduled Security Council meeting was canceled because the U.S. does not want to make public details of the Syrian cease-fire deal, Russia's ambassador to the United Nations said Friday.
Leonardo DiCaprio, Stevie Wonder, Michael Douglas and other stars pleaded for peace and the survival of the planet Friday which Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said is "closer to conflict than we may like to think." At a ceremony Friday to commemorate the International Day of Peace on Sept. 21, Ban urged all combatants to lay down their arms that day.
French officials say three men have been charged and jailed after a woman was allegedly lured on Facebook by one of them and then gang-raped near the Eiffel Tower.
Fifteen years after negotiations with leftist rebels collapsed in a fury of violence, the road to peace in Colombia once again passes through this remote southern town near where leaders of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia are gathering in a jungle conclave for their last meeting as an armed insurgency.
An Uruguayan judge has rejected a call to forcibly hospitalize a former Guantanamo prisoner who is on a hunger strike after medical officials determined that he's not at imminent risk of death.
A senior ISIS leader—thought to be the terror groups number three member-- was killed earlier this month in a precision strike near the Syrian city of Raqqah, a U.S, official told Fox News.
Brazilian federal prosecutors have charged eight people with allegedly recruiting for and promoting terrorist organizations before the Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games.
Aid convoys for Syria's war-ravaged city of Aleppo were delayed Friday for the fourth day as the United States and Russia, sponsors of a Syria cease-fire deal, traded accusations over who was to blame.
Police in the eastern town of Bautzen are preparing for possible further clashes over the weekend after violence between far-right protesters and migrants this week.
The Islamic State’s decision to oust the leader of Boko Haram -- who had a penchant for using children as suicide bombers – is fracturing the Nigerian terror group as bloodthirsty militants are divided amid a new push to attack Christian communities.
Opposition leaders in the predominantly Serb region of Bosnia are vowing to hold a referendum on re-establishing an official holiday after an unfavorable ruling from the country's constitutional court.
The International Monetary Fund says conflicts in the Middle East have wiped out development gains for a whole generation and that the international community must be prepared to scale up long-term development aid to rebuild infrastructure and institutions.