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Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has received a letter from Kim Jong Un to US President Donald Trump, according to a State Department official.

More than 100 US troops began an unexpected exercise in southern Syria on Friday in direct response to a series of Russian military threats, according to a US defense official.

US Secretary of Defense James Mattis made an unexpected trip to Afghanistan Friday, his visit coming as the US tries to make headway in the country after 17 years of war.

CNN's Will Ripley reports from Pyongyang three months after the historic meeting between President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.

Some schoolgirls in the United Kingdom have been pressured by their peers into undergoing female genital mutilation (FGM), according to FGM survivor and campaigner Leyla Hussein, Britain's Press Association reported.

Yet another natural disaster has struck part of Japan, continuing a summer of chaos that has seen the country weather deadly floods, typhoons, earthquakes, landslides and heatwaves.

Russia has warned the US military twice in the last week that its forces, along with Syrian regime units, are prepared to attack in an area where dozens of US troops are located, according to several US defense officials.

The boy was left for nearly 20 hours before the ambulance could reach him. He was unable to move because a bullet had torn a hole through his abdomen. When the fighting finally subsided, he was driven the 130 kilometers north from Ghazni to Kabul and a specialized hospital that treats the war-wounded.

After 17 years of war, the number of civilian deaths in Afghanistan hit the highest recorded point this year, and children aren't immune to the bloodshed. CNN's Sam Kiley reports.

Russia has warned the US military twice in the last week that its forces, along with Syrian regime units, are prepared to attack militants in an area where dozens of US troops are also located, according to several US defense officials.

A magnitude-6.7 earthquake struck the northern island of Hokkaido early Thursday, September 6, causing landslides that buried a large number of homes at the foot of a ridge.