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WASHINGTON (AP) — A key participant in the deadly 2012 attack on the U.S. compound in Benghazi, Libya, that killed four Americans has been taken into custody and will be prosecuted in their deaths, ...

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo on Thursday said the assassination of General Murtala Mohammed compelled Nigeria’s military leadership at the time to rejig the country’s security architecture.The ...

Although Gaza has four other border crossings, they are shared with Israel, and many Palestinians see Rafah as their gateway ...

Gaza’s Rafah border crossing with Egypt is buzzing with activity as limited travel to and from the territory is expected to resume after years of near-complete isolation. That's a key step as ...

Allies say McConnell has secured more than $60 billion in direct funding for Kentucky in his 40-plus years in the U.S. Senate ...

A glance at the morning papers in Europe this Monday showed that the US Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s speech at this weekend’s Munich Security Conference failed to address European concerns of US ...

Stocks were little changed shortly after 6 p.m. ET on Thursday. Futures tied to the S&P 500 and Nasdaq-100 futures each lost about 0.1%. Futures tied to the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 24 points ...

A source trapped inside an industrial-scale scamming operation contacted me, determined to expose his captors’ crimes—and ...

The European Commission’s new Digital Networks Act threatens to dismantle nearly a decade of net neutrality protections in Europe. What is being presented as a technical update could actually give ...