The US peace envoy to Afghanistan, Zalmay Khalilzad, met Sunday with leaders in Kabul to discuss bil

Sharp decline constitutes the first concrete sign of progress in early and thorny challenge for Bide

US Mission will prioritize student visa applications for Nigerians to ensure they are interviewed fo

Rare blood clots found in six Johnson & Johnson vaccine cases out of more than 6.8 million

Nearly 6,000 SDF fighters, local security forces and members of anti-terror units are participating

Family told police he was playing with a machine gun' days before grocery store shooting

US looks to neighbors for ways to stem tide of migrants headed to its southwestern border

When COVID-19 hit last year, many Nigerian parents withdrew their children from school over fear exp

Declassified US Intelligence assessment concludes Beijing felt the risk of getting caught outweighed

Secretary of State Blinken and Pentagon chief Austin will meet with allies in Japan and South Korea

It will be the first meeting of US and Chinese senior officials since President Joe Biden took offic

Controversy grows over whether FBI, other agencies missed warning signs in lead-up to Capitol attack

Border Patrol tells VOA the group apprehended in maritime smuggling event'

It was an apparent response to rocket attacks against US targets in Iraq

Reports say kidnappers killed at least one student who tried to escape during attack, second of its

Thousands of Central Americans have attempted to travel north in recent months following back-to-bac

US military and intelligence officials warn IS-Khorasan appears to have recovered and may soon look

SDF says it has captured dozens of IS members in the eastern Syrian province of Deir el-Zour

State Department did not respond to VOA Persian request for comment on letter by 38 Iran-based dissi

Special Counsel praises whistleblower's tremendous courage'

Contacts with trapped miners indicate 12 are in good health; condition of others unclear

Beijing angered over latest action by Washington to build official relationship with self-ruled Taiw

Ex-FBI agent Robert Levinson was abducted on Kish Island in 2007 and is now presumed dead

It's latest incident in region that has been in grip of Islamist insurgency for more than a decade

Allegations stem from four-year inquiry into actions of elite troops from 2005 to 2016

Confirmation from key security agency comes as election officials tally votes, with the outcome stil

Homeland Security chief says 'no indications that a foreign adversary has succeeded' in compromising

Forces including Navy SEALs rescued 27-year-old Philip Walton, who had been abducted on Tuesday from

Despite territorial defeat in March 2019, IS has carried out terror attacks against civilians and mi

US government to contribute nearly $152 million in additional humanitarian assistance to Niger, Mali

One official, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said the injuries were a result of a collision

The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces accuse IS sleeper cells and Syrian government proxies of ca

An American company has reportedly reached a deal with Kurdish forces in northeast Syria to develop

The seeds are of unknown origin, and state agencies are warning recipients not to plant them if they

US envoy Zalmay Khalilzad apparently attributes reduction in violence to Washington's peace pact wit

UN official says people have a right to protest peacefully and should not be subjected to unnecessar

SDF forces have launched a second phase of their campaign to hunt down remnants of the IS terror gro

The officials say while the November presidential election will not be risk free, defense and back-u

CENTCOM commander Gen. Kenneth Frank McKenzie also told VOA that the Afghan Taliban is not living

The Chinese embassy in Washington did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Embassy flies Black Lives Matter flag; US military bans Confederate flags on its bases

US leader declares national emergency, calling International Criminal Court investigation an unusua

Iranian media showed images of Sirous Asgari arriving Wednesday in Tehran, four years after he was p

More than two dozen North Korean individuals are accused of making at least $2.5 billion in illicit

They say some 20 drugs come only from China and there's already one shortage 

Dr. Anne Schuchat, Principal Deputy Director of CDC, emphasizes American epidemiologists, virologist

There are about 500 troops in the area who, according to US officials, are protecting the region's o

Attorney General William Barr, FBI director Christopher Wray and counterintelligence chief William E

AFRICOM says al-Shabab used the camps to launch terror attacks on civilians

There have been constant demonstrations from both sides of the political spectrum. Along with these

American troops in northeast Syria prevented Russian military convoys from touring near the Iraqi bo

The pending decision is part of a worldwide review by Defense Secretary Mark Esper, who is looking f

Not clear how many passengers were on board and to whom the plane belonged that went down in Afghani

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a war monitor that has researchers inside the country, repo

But American General Milley says absence of casualties 'has more to do with the defensive techniques

Soleimani was considered Iran's most powerful figure after Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei