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When Ako Abdulrahman came under attack from ISIS militants advancing around the Iraqi city of Kirkuk, he realized he needed protection.

Five key ISIS recruiters have been arrested in Germany, authorities said Tuesday.

Scotland plans to throw its weight behind a legal battle against the British government to stop it from kicking off "Brexit," First Minister Nicola Sturgeon's office said Tuesday.

Police in Australia have launched an investigation after pilots on approach into the Melbourne area received fake air traffic control communications.

We agree, London can be horrible.

An Iraqi shepherd looks at his flock -- his prized and only possessions -- and wonders how he ended up here, stuck in a dusty no man's land between two checkpoints, barely 50 meters apart.

Hungary's parliament has blocked a proposal by Prime Minister Viktor Orban to bar refugees from resettling in the country.

A British banker plumbed "the very depths of depravity" during his brutal murders of two Indonesian women, a Hong Kong judge said on Tuesday, describing him as the "archetypal sexual predator."

Philippines-based Islamist extremist group Abu Sayyaf says it has abducted a German man off the coast of Malaysia, according to the Philippine military.

Fresh air doesn't exist in New Delhi at the moment.

There is so much at stake in the election this year -- immigration, jobs, health care and the future of the Supreme Court. But there is another, immediate concern. When you cast your vote Tuesday, consider that the next president may well be the first to face a new kind of warfare when he or she takes office: cyberwar.

Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega is on track to win a fourth term following elections on Sunday -- this time with his wife as his running mate.

For more than 28 hours, CNN's Arwa Damon and photojournalist Brice Laine were with Iraqi special forces during their push into ISIS-held Mosul.

A mass grave containing the remains of about 100 beheaded civilians has been discovered inside a school in a town south of Mosul, Iraq's military said in a statement Monday.

For more than 28 hours CNN senior international correspondent Arwa Damon and photojournalist Brice Lane were with Iraqi special forces as they pushed forward into ISIS-held Mosul on Friday. It was a new phase of the liberation operation -- switching from villages and open terrain to a dense city that a well-equipped ISIS is determined to defend.

In a red brick building on a 19th-century Russian czarist military compound in Tallinn, Estonia, a team of cyber experts is analyzing the hacking of the Democratic National Committee and how a Western democracy can legally respond.

A woman arrested by police in Brisbane, Australia, shocked officers by handing over a zipped bag containing a baby koala.

A rising tide of humanity ebbed east from Mosul on Thursday as Iraqi forces entered the ISIS-controlled city for the first time in two years and engaged in up-close battles with the militants.