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Iraq and Syria have been riven by violence for years but their neighbor, Jordan, has been largely immune to the bloodshed that has swept across the region. Until now.

When historians look back at the 2016 election, there will likely be many big mysteries to solve.

In the 25 years since the fall of the Soviet Union, the US-Russia relationship has waxed and waned.

It's 2 a.m. when the half-moon wakes Hary. He senses its gravitational pull -- feels the moon coaxing fish out of a nearby reef and into his fishing nets here at the edge of Africa.

Myanmar's treatment of its Muslim Rohingya minority threatens to undermine the region's security and stability, Malaysia's Foreign Minister said Monday at a rare international meeting to tackle the crisis.

When the Financial Times and Time magazine both named President-elect Trump as their person of the year, the publications did so as less of a plaudit and more of a recognition that his election is a pivotal event for the West.

A former Russian oil tycoon who became a prominent critic of Vladimir Putin has said he believes the Kremlin leader is savoring the widespread belief he influenced the US election, and warns that the Russian president will likely repeat the ruse of appearing to hack western democracies in the years ahead.

The woman who may have brought down South Korea's president appeared in court on Monday, charged with abuse of power and fraud.

Yolanda ticks off the countries she and her husband have passed through in the last three months: Brazil, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Panama and now Costa Rica. But she is no tourist.

Historians have long known that Nazi soldiers took drugs -- but what exactly did these drugs do to their bodies and brains?

When I fled Vietnam as a child, I never imagined that the islands we attempted our escapes from would one day become luxurious beach resorts.

A Canadian woman is among seven people killed Sunday in Jordan as unknown gunmen fired at police officers at various locations, including an ancient castle popular with tourists.

President-elect Donald Trump's incoming chief of staff continued to cast doubt on the American intelligence community's finding that Russia was responsible for hacks into Democratic emails in an effort to help Trump defeat Hillary Clinton.

At least 12 people on board an Indonesian military aircraft were killed Sunday morning when the plane crashed into a mountain in the eastern section of the country, the Indonesian military said in a statement.

China has agreed to return the US underwater drone that it seized in international waters earlier this week, the Pentagon said Saturday.

Four years ago, I decided to take a stab at writing my first book. I intended it to be fiction. I may have failed.

A suicide attack in the southern Yemeni city of Aden on Sunday killed at least 41 soldiers and injured others, two Yemeni senior security officials told CNN.