Two were killed and another survived a lethal kinetic strike on an alleged drug vessel in the Eastern Pacific, U.S. Southern Command said on Friday.

Rescuers were searching for the 82 residents feared buried under heaps of mud and debris, while 24 people managed to escape the disaster, officials said.

China's Defense Ministry says the military's top general is under investigation for serious violations of discipline and law

The Pentagon foresees a "more limited" role in deterring North Korea and shifting more of the responsibility to South Korea, a Pentagon policy document released on Friday said.

A member of Haiti’s transitional presidential council has announced that a majority of the panel has voted to fire the country’s embattled Prime Minister Alix Didier Fils-Aimé as the country’s political chaos deepens.

A new death toll elevates to 71 the number killed during last week's plaza fire in Karachi, Pakistan, which lacked fire suppression and exits.

U.S. and European officials say they are unaware of any intelligence that shows China and Russia are endangering the island, which is protected by the NATO security umbrella.

Olena Janchuk spends another day of freezing isolation in her high-rise apartment. The former kindergarten teacher suffers from severe rheumatoid arthritis, and has been trapped for weeks on the 19th floor of her Kyiv tower block,