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Taiwan's military is applying lessons on modern warfare from regional conflicts and adopting asymmetric warfare tools to prevent a war with China, America's senior diplomat in Taipei said Wednesday.

The Army rolled out an unmanned aerial system exchange in March, letting military units purchase drones as easily as ordering paper towels or cleaning supplies from Amazon.

President Trump said Wednesday he believes the Iran war will end shortly after the midterm elections in November.

The federal government has seized a Chinese-run online scammers' marketplace, blocked more than $50 million in laundered cryptocurrency, slapped sanctions on the operators and sent a strike force to Madagascar to help close 13 scam compounds.

The Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation announced the lineup for their Anti-Communist Film Festival next month.

Airlines scrambled Wednesday to dig out of the backlog triggered by technical problems experienced by the United Kingdom's air traffic control system that has forced the cancellation of more than 2,000 flights.

Rescuers in Yemen pulled more bodies from the rubble Wednesday of a prison run by Iran-backed Houthi rebels that was hit in a deadly airstrike earlier this week, as an escalation between the rebels and a Saudi-led coalition threatened Yemen's fragile ...

A 43-day strike by hospital nurses in Kenya ended on Wednesday after the government and union signed a return-to-work agreement.

Germany's foreign minister said military-age Ukrainian men in Germany should go home but insisted that any such move should be voluntary.

Brent crude, the major trading classification and global price benchmark for light, sweet crude oil, reached more than $100 a barrel Wednesday.