Republican presidential candidates spar over national security issues and how best to counter the so-called Islamic State (IS) in the first debate since attacks in California and Paris.

US Secretary of State John Kerry yesterday held talks in the Russian capital Moscow on ways to bridge gaps over ways to end the Syrian conflict.

One of the shooters in the San Bernardino massacre, Tashfeen Malik, sent at least two private messages on Facebook to a small group of Pakistani friends in 2012 and 2014, pledging her support for Islamic jihad and saying she hoped to join the fight one day.

At least 41 police officers died yesterday and several more were injured when their bus drove off a bridge in northern Argentina, plunging into a dry riverbed, officials said.

Donald Trump may want to block all Muslims from entering the United States, but a Brooklyn comedy club is welcoming them into its shows free of charge.

The couple behind the San Bernardino attack that killed 14 people were radicalised before they started dating, the director of the FBI has said.

The US has imposed new sanctions on North Korea over its alleged weapons proliferation activities.

Donald Trump's anti-Muslim rhetoric undermines US national security by boosting the Islamic State (IS) group, the Pentagon warns.

The opposition in Venezuela has won a majority of seats in the National Assembly, overturning nearly two decades of dominance by the Socialists of President Nicolas Maduro.

US Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew will chair a first-ever summit of the finance ministers of the UN Security Council this month, to discuss combating terror group

Donald Trump is once again alone at the top of the Republican field, according to the latest CNN/ORC Poll, with 36% of registered Republicans and Republican-

The mass shooting in California is being investigated as "an act of terrorism," the FBI said, amid reports the female assailant had pledged allegiance to the Islamic State group on Facebook.

Lawyers representing the family of the two San Bernardino attackers say, relatives are "in complete shock" over the shooting.

How often do mass shootings occur in the US? More than one a day. That is how often, on average, shootings that left four or more people injured or dead occurred in the United States this year, according to compilations of episodes derived from news reports.

US officials release the dashboard camera video showing a white police officer shooting a black teenager 16 times in Chicago last year.

Sixteen people were injured in New Orleans late Sunday when gunshots rang out during a melee at a city playground where hundreds

At least 16 people are wounded in an apparent shooting at a park in New Orleans, police say.

A Democrat has won a Mississippi House race by drawing a longer straw, an official way to break a tie in a legislative election for the state.

Donald Trump's support for registering US Muslims in a database drew criticism Friday from rival Republicans and Democratic

Jewish American spy Jonathan Pollard was released from a US prison yesterday after serving nearly 30 years for passing American secrets