The official news agency for Iran's judiciary says authorities have executed a number of Kurdish Islamic extremists convicted of armed robbery, killing civilians and planning bomb attacks.
President Obama has authorized a 30-day mission for the U.S. military to conduct airstrikes against the Islamic State terror group in Libya as new strikes were unleashed Tuesday, Fox News has learned.
The U.S. Central Command says the military has conducted two counterterrorism airstrikes targeting al-Qaida's branch in southern Yemen this month, killing seven militants.
Pope Francis has lamented that children are being taught at school that gender can be a choice, adding that his predecessor, Benedict XVI has labeled current times "the epoch of sin against God the Creator."
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says he still has "very strong concerns" about the protection of children in Yemen and stands by a report that saw the Saudi Arabia-led coalition being added to a U.N.
Kosovo prosecutors have filed charges against a man who allegedly wanted to join the Islamic State group in Syria but was caught and sent back by Turkish authorities.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has slammed Amnesty International for a report alleging that some people detained in connection with Turkey's failed coup attempt had been tortured.
A lawyer for a British man accused of trying to grab a police officer's gun to shoot Donald Trump says she hopes he will be sent back to Britain rather than standing trial in the U.S.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan accused the European Union Tuesday of not upholding its side of an EU-Turkey agreement on migration, saying that promised funds and visa-free travel for Turks in the EU had not been delivered.
Rescuers in Syria said Tuesday a helicopter dropped containers filled with toxic gas, seriously injuring dozens of people, not far from where a Russian transport helicopter was shot down the day before, Reuters reported.
The governor of a western Mexican state says a mayor and four local police officers have been arrested in the murder of 10 people who were killed and burned over the weekend.
The family of a British-Iranian woman held in Iran says she's appeared in court for the first time and her case will be heard by the same judge who sentenced a Washington Post journalist to prison.