Iraqi forces have retaken the ancient Assyrian village of Nimrud, Iraqi military says. Last year, ISIS blew up the walled city. CNN's Phil Black reports.
Four children were killed in Syria's war-ravaged eastern Aleppo on Wednesday as regime airstrikes pounded targets near schools and hospitals, an activist group said.
The Admiral Kuznetsov is not in itself that impressive: the Russian aircraft carrier is said to heave black smoke as it travels. On Monday, one of its SU33 fighter jets crashed due to a technical failure while trying to land on it.
President-elect Donald Trump's decision to install Myron Ebell as the head of his EPA transition team has drawn scrutiny from the activist community. CNN's Jake Tapper reports.
In the years that I've been writing and talking about politics and public policy, I have learned one very sobering lesson: It's nearly impossible to get people to care about even the most troubling and horrific problems if they are happening on the other side of the world.
President Barack Obama issued a paean to democracy Wednesday following his tour of the Acropolis in Greece, a symbolic nod to the ancient birthplace of the system, which he insists will prevail amid challenges around the globe.
On his final state tour as President of the United States, Barack Obama will visit the Acropolis, the ancient Greek monument known as the "cradle of democracy".
We are always being told that West Africa is a coming thing in fashion. In the same way that people fell over themselves a decade ago trying to tell anyone who would listen that China was going to be the coming place for art.
France's former economy minister Emmanuel Macron has thrown his hat into the ring for the French presidency, announcing that he would stand in next year's election.
