U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren says the country doesn't want another war in Iraq.
Warren made her comments to reporters at the Statehouse Friday as the U.S. unleashed its first airstrikes in northern Iraq against militants of the Islamic State group amid a worsening humanitarian crisis...
Researchers are hoping to reduce the number of American soldiers committing suicide through a simple blood test. The test will check the level of a gene that suppresses so-called stress hormones.
President Obama is still weighing a possible military response to the crisis in Iraq, as the militant group the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria has taken over several cities in the Sunni heartland since last week. But a new poll shows that the one thing an overwhelming majority of Americans don't want him to do is send American troops back to Iraq to deal with it.
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An Afghan security official says the Taliban have attacked a border police checkpoint in the country's south near the border with Pakistan, killing 11 policemen.
Syrian President Bashar Assad is warning there will be retaliation against the U. S. for any military strike launched in response to a chemical weapons attack.
Ninety-four-year-old Michael Karkoc has spent six decades living in America. Recently, the Associated Press discovered that, prior to illegally entering the country in 1949, he was a leader in a World War II group that committed war crimes including the massacres of women and children.