AFGHANISTAN

Ghani was scheduled to hold his first news briefing as president-elect later on Monday.

The announcement came hours after Ghani and rival, Abdullah Abdullah, signed a power-sharing agreement.

Ashraf Ghani and Abdullah Abdullah will share control over who leads key institutions, such as the Afghan army.

Fourteen Pakistani detainees were released from Bagram Prison, Afghanistan and sent back to Pakistan.

One of the new president's first tasks is likely to be signing a bilateral security agreement with the United States.

A senior member of the Islamic State militant group reportedly exhorted supporters in Australia to conduct public beheadings at random.

The Obama administration is adamant the battle against ISIS will not involve U.S. combat troops. What it will take to beat the militants.

The names of the soldier and civilian killed in a suicide bombing in Kabul Tuesday have been released. A Polish soldier was also killed.

The International Security Assistance Force would not identify the nationalities of the victims.

A Taliban suicide bomber reportedly drove a vehicle loaded with explosives into a convoy carrying NATO-led troops.

Al Qaeda dismissed as "lies" a U.S. assessment that it is in decline, but a defiant online message issued by the network on Sunday made no mention of the ultra-hardline Islamic State group widely seen as its rival for the leadership of global jihad.

Prime Minister Tony Abbott said that the decision to send troops followed a request from the United States in the last 24 hours.

Has Iraq captured one of China's estimated hundreds of Islamic State fighters?

Al Qaeda's Yemen and Syria affiliates are trying to make and smuggle bombs undetectable by airport security onto U.S.-bound flights.

Despite denials that Russian troops are in Ukraine, families with children in the Russian military are coping with 'mysterious' deaths.

Ten years ago, 170,000 people in the Russian Federation had human immunodeficiency virus. The estimated number now is 1.2 million.

President Obama chose retired Marine Corps Gen. John Allen to manage the effort to destroy the Islamic State.

A UNICEF report, released Thursday, said that nearly two million children in South Asia die of preventable causes before their fifth birthday.

In an interview with CNN, Secretary of State John Kerry said the fight against ISIS in Iraq and Syria was not a war.

After President Obama vowed to destroy ISIS in Syria, speculation mounts over how the U.S. and it allies will accomplish that goal.

More attention is being paid now to terrorist threats, but America's wars are also breeding more extremists.