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Venezuela's acting President Delcy Rodriguez announced a major Cabinet shake-up Wednesday with the appointment of a new defense minister to replace Gen. Vladimir Padrino Lopez, who had been a cornerstone of the military's long-standing support for ...

The Venezuelan government deliberately used drugs as a weapon of mass destruction against the U.S., Venezuelan-American political commentator Franklin Camargo told a panel of House lawmakers Wednesday.

China's communist government is continuing to work toward the annexation of Taiwan and hopes to complete unification with the self-ruled island democracy without resorting to force, according to the U.S. intelligence community's annual threat ...

Israel killed another top Iranian official - the intelligence minister - in its campaign against the Islamic Republic's leadership, and an Iranian offshore natural gas field was struck Wednesday amid the war's escalating pressure on the region's ...

Pakistan and Afghanistan on Wednesday declared a temporary pause in escalating fighting, two days after Kabul blamed Islamabad for a deadly airstrike in the Afghan capital that it said killed hundreds of people at a drug rehabilitation hospital.

When a male bullfinch smashed into Marcin Jarzebski's apartment window, he took it in but realized it needed expert treatment. So the next morning he brought it to Warsaw's new emergency room for wild birds.

The Israeli air force struck Iran's South Pars natural gas processing facility, the largest in the world, Wednesday in the first attack of its kind since the war began.

The Israeli military announced Wednesday that an overnight airstrike killed Esmaeil Khatib, Iran's minister of intelligence, in yet another massive blow to the Iranian security structure.

U.S. forces used multiple 5,000-pound bombs to strike Iranian missile facilities near the strategically vital Strait of Hormuz, Pentagon officials said late Tuesday.

President Trump said Wednesday the U.S. might finish off the Iranian regime and let countries that rely on the Strait of Hormuz as an oil-shipping channel deal with its security.