They have made enemies across the globe and endured three months of US-led air-strikes, but Islamic State fighters have surrendered little of their self-declared caliphate to the broad sweep of forces arrayed against them.
A US terrorism watchdog said al-Qaida's affiliate in Yemen is threatening to kill a US hostage who was kidnapped more than a year ago if its demands are not met.
Afghanistan's new leaders were hoping to build bridges with the West at a conference in London on Thursday as they struggle to bring peace amid the withdrawal of foreign combat forces after 13 years.
The Democratic People's Republic of Korea has offered to send leader Kim Jong-un's increasingly influential sister to a private cultural festival in Seoul next year, the organizer of the event in the Republic of Korea said on Thursday.
The New Zealand government rebuffed moves to start a register of foreign homebuyers on Thursday after earlier appearing to soften on the idea in response to Australian moves to record overseas buyers.
Thousands of demonstrators disrupted New York City traffic into early Thursday after a grand jury decided not to bring charges against a white police officer in the chokehold death of an unarmed black man.
Four women who said they were sexually tortured as political prisoners following Chile's 1973 military coup have filed a complaint they hope will bring to light dictatorship-era rapes that have been buried by fear, shame and silence.
Russian President Vladimir Putin in his annual state-of-the-nation address on Thursday defended Russia's aggressive foreign policy, saying the actions are necessary for his country's survival.
Cambodia's National Assembly will soon amend its internal rules to formally recognize a "minority leader", Prime Minister Hun Sen said on Thursday.
Four of the remaining nine USS Arizona survivors of the Pearl Harbor attack are vowing this year's anniversary won't be their last reunion.
Australia's government is taking steps to curb Australian travelers' soaring expectations of what help they can get from their embassies, such as a loan to pay a prostitute in Thailand or assistance to evict a polecat from above a ceiling in the United States.
Environmental activist group Sea Shepherd on Wednesday left Australia on a campaign targeting illegal fishing in the Southern Ocean, having successfully seen off Japanese whalers after a decade of harassment.
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