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The State Department late last week approved arms sales worth more than $8 billion to key U.S. partners across the Middle East.

Iran's latest proposal to the United States calls for issues between the two countries to be resolved within 30 days and aims to end the war rather than extend the ceasefire, according to Iran's state-linked media.

President Trump says he will pull more U.S. troops from Germany after an initial reduction of 5,000, while Republican leaders in Congress say they're "very concerned" about the move and the signal it sends to America's adversaries.

Two U.S. service members were reported missing Sunday in Morocco, during major annual American military exercises in western Africa, Pentagon officials said.

The merry chirping of birds echoed through towering trees in a small woodland in northeastern Serbia. Down on the ground, animal tracks could be seen imprinted in the moist grass and moss.

The health of imprisoned Iranian rights lawyer Narges Mohammadi was at "very high risk," her foundation and family said Saturday, adding that Iran's Intelligence Ministry was opposing her transfer to Tehran for treatment by her own doctors.

The U.S. hit a historic all-time low in press freedom, now ranking 64th globally, according to Reporters Without Borders' 2026 World Press Freedom Index.

The U.S.-based organizers of an international human rights conference said they canceled it days before it was due to open because China pressured the African host country to exclude Taiwanese activists.

Two people were killed after a Russian drone attacked a minibus in the southern Ukrainian city of Kherson, local officials said Saturday, in the latest barrage of civilian areas, a hallmark of Moscow's full-scale invasion of its neighbor.

The governor of Mexico's northern Sinaloa state said that he would temporarily resign after the United States charged him and nine other officials with drug trafficking in a bombshell indictment that has shaken the political establishment.