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With national pride flying as high as one of it's recent intercontinental ballistic missile tests, North Korea threatened the United States -- again -- on Thursday, warning with typical hyperbolic abandon that the rogue regime would soon send unexpected 'gift packages,' claiming America is on the

Beijing says the development on the line between Sikkim and Tibet could threaten peace on the border.

Otto Warmbier, a US university student held captive in North Korea for 17 months, is released, but a former US official says he is in a coma and in urgent need of medical care.

As more and more details emerge concerning Friday’s Ramadan attack on a busload of Christians on pilgrimage, the more it becomes evident that these 29 martyrs died solely because they were Christians.

NORTH Korea has fired another ballistic missile, the South Korean military said. It comes after China ordered it to stand down its rocket testing or risk harsh sanctions. US President Donald Trump warned of a “major, major conflict” with Kim J

American F-35 jets are expected to arrive in Estonia on Tuesday, which will put the latest in U.S. military jet technology close to Russi...

No congressional staffers will be allowed in the members' briefing.

The U.S. has detec ted signs that China is preparing for a military crisis on the peninsula, a U.S. defense official revealed Thursday.

Amid tensions with North Korea, U.S. officials including the president had said that the Vinson was headed toward the Korean peninsula

U.S. Ambassador Nikki Haley has a message for North Korea: We're not trying to pick a fight so don't try and give us one. She told reporters Wednesday: The ball is in their court.

China and Russia have dispatched spy vessels to shadow a fleet of US aircraft carriers heading to North Korean waters. Beijing has sought Moscows help in averting the mounting crisis over Pyongyangs repeated nuclear tests.

Trade was up overall in the first quarter, even though Beijing said it had complied with United Nations sanctions and stopped buying coal.

WASHINGTON (AP) The Pentagon says U.S. forces in Afghanistan dropped the military's largest non-nuclear bomb on an Islamic State target in Afghanistan. Adam Stump is a Pentagon spokesman. Stump says it was the first-ever combat use of the bomb, known

The mother of all bombs. Developing story....

President Trump urged Chinese President Xi Jinping to solve the problem of an aggressive North Korea, or we will solve the problem without them! I explained to the President of China that a trade deal with the U.S. will be far better for them if they so

If North Korea crosses China's

The foreign ministry says it will respond by "force of arms" to "reckless moves".

According to Korean news agency Chosun, the "Chinese army has deployed about 150,000 troops to the North Korean border in two groups to prepare for unforeseen circumstances." The reason: the prospect of "military options", such as preemptive attacks on North Korea, like the one the United States

Syrian or Russian warplanes dropped incendiary bombs on areas of Idlib and Hama provinces just days after a deadly gas attack in the region, activists and a monitoring group reported on Monday.

As the crisis in the Middle East deepened a command centre made up of the forces of Russia, Iran and militias loyal to Assad claimed the US raid crossed red lines