AFGHANISTAN

Lawmakers are looking to shelve planned flights from the U.S. to Cuba over security concerns.

The department said in a statement published Saturday that it resorted to using the bomb only after attempts to negotiate with the shooting suspect failed.

Hamza bin Laden promised to continue al Qaeda’s fight against the United States and its allies in a 21-minute speech entitled “We Are All Osama,” according to a report.

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg reiterated the military alliance’s commitment to stabilizing Afghanistan amid a worsening security situation.

Investigators said they found bomb-making materials, rifles, ammunition and a journal of combat tactics at suspect Micah Johnson’s home on Friday.

In the video, the leader of the Islamic State group outlines the structure of the outfit’s self-proclaimed caliphate and vows that ISIS will “remain” despite recent setbacks.

Seek resources like the Ferguson syllabus put together after the police shooting of Michael Brown in August 2014.

About 8,400 American troops will now remain in the strife-torn country until the end of Obama’s term — much higher than the initial target of 5,500.

Authorities said the suspected militants had planned to blow up a Shiite mosque and a ministerial building during Ramadan or Eid Al-Fitr.

Dozens of worshippers offering up special Ramadan prayers at a mosque were swept away in the flood waters, officials said Sunday.

The estimates are from the day Obama took office in January 2009 through Dec. 31, 2015, and have been criticized for being highly understated.

Al Rahabi is the second prisoner to be resettled in Montenegro this year as President Barack Obama pushes to close the detention center before his terms ends in January.

The world had 65.3 million displaced people in 2015 — almost 6 million more than at the end of 2014, the United Nations Refugee Agency said on World Refugee Day.

An explosion hit a minibus carrying government employees in the Afghan capital Kabul on Monday, killing and wounding several, police said.

Attorney General Loretta Lynch says investigators are working to piece together what happened at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida.

Jordan's used fighter jets came into the picture after the U.S. Congress refused to finance a deal that would help Pakistan buy eight new F-16s from the U.S.

The plan extends the international financial commitment for the foreseeable future at a time when Western leaders have been hoping to reduce Afghanistan’s reliance on foreign military aid.

While the news media focuses on Omar Mateen’s ties to ISIS, many on social media wonder if his police officer aspirations are being ignored.

The U.N. human rights chief said “well-functioning migration governance systems” are needed to assess requests for international protections.

Legislators, including some Republicans, have sought restrictions after earlier mass shootings, but even minor changes failed to become law.

Several thousand demonstrators formed a human chain at a demonstration organized by the alliance "Stop Ramstein/No Drone War."