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After Kerry makes a case for attacking Syria, the Foreign Relations Committee reportedly drafts a resolution barring U.S. ground troops.

Raytheon's Tomahawk missiles are worth more than $1.4 million each.

The U.S. president says Congress will debate and take a vote after it returns from recess Sept. 9.

As the week ends, Washington resorted again to harsh words against Syria, saying a strike would not look like the Iraq War.

MPs defied Prime Minister David Cameron on a 285-272 vote, dealing a blow to the international coalition.

A series of oil sector factors has pushed oil well above $100 per barrel.

Obama repeats threatening statements while Cameron faces Commons revolt on intervention.

According to a new study published in the journal Nature Communications, Mesolithic hunter-gatherers used domestic pigs 500 years earlier than previously thought.

Many in Damascus welcome the expected attack but wonder what the outcome will be and how they can prepare for it.

Bradley Manning has been viewed as both a hero and a traitor for leaking hundreds of thousands of documents to WikiLeaks.

Convicted on 10 counts of espionage and theft, Bradley Manning faces up to 90 years for leaking more than 700,000 classified files.

Monday, Aug. 19, is World Humanitarian Day. The U.N. celebrates the day this year with a new project called the "word market," which raises money for the Global Humanitarian Fund

Among thousands of Syrians displaced by civil war, a lucky few are ensconced in an artists’ colony in the mountain town of Aley, Lebanon.

Peña Nieto's proposal for energy-sector reform is falling flat, even with the private investors supposed to benefit from it.

The heightening of the terror alert for U.S. citizens in the Middle East and Africa has raised concerns over energy security as well.

With U.S., Germany, France and Britain on high alert, U.S. Sen. Saxby Chambliss says threat is “reminiscent of what we saw pre-9/11.”

When trouble arrives, banks often depart, and access to cash becomes difficult. This is the story of how people bank in conflict zones.

A video has been leaked for Arizona Cardinals cheerleader Megan Welter hitting her boyfriend, and accusing him of cheating.

Kurdistan is looking to export its oil through pipelines to Turkey.

Mohammad Sarwar is reportedly close to Pakistan’s new Prime Minister, Nawaz Sharif, of the ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz party.

The majority of these applicants have been resident in the U.K. for several years.