ISIS Killed 17 on First Day in Syrian City of Palmyra, Monitors Say

ISIS militants executed 17 people, some by beheading, in their first day in control of the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra, a monitoring group said Thursday.

ISIS' child soldiers: What will happen to 'cubs of the caliphate'?

The boy is a soldier for the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria -- and he's not the only one.

Ban Ki-moon to visit North Korea in effort to improve ties with South

Ban, who will visit two countries’ Kaesong industrial park, becomes first head of UN to visit North since 1993 but talks on nuclear weapons considered unlikely

Japan approves third nuclear plant for restart

Japan's nuclear regulator signed off on the basic safety of a reactor at a third nuclear plant on Wednesday, as the country inches toward rebooting its atomic industry more than four years after the 2011 Fukushima disaster