President Trump claimed during remarks on Long Island, N.Y., on Friday that he will make the Strait of Hormuz a U.S. territory, despite the fact that Oman and Iran share jurisdiction of the waterway.

Kazem Gharibabadi said Tehran would decide when the strategic waterway opens or closes, rejecting Washington’s claim of control

Jefferson Kelly's 20-year-old son has been on board the ship which is at the center of a debate around US Navy conditions.

The U.S Geological Survey said the quake hit Indonesia's Flores region with a depth of 10 kilometers at 5:58 a.m. local time.

The Taliban have Afghanistan in a chokehold that spares no one. But threats are starting to crack their veneer of stability and control.

The Taliban marked five years in power on Saturday, seeking to portray their government as ​in control even as aid and rights groups warned of escalating crises.

As Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers mark five years since sweeping back to power, some Kabul residents said they feel safer after decades of conflict and upheaval but stressed the leaders should now focus on creating jobs and expanding access to schools in the country where girls above the age of 12 are banned from education.

As the Taliban celebrates five years in power, an Afghan woman in exile shares her experience. Also in the programme: at least five killed in Indonesian island after earthquake; and Bill Clinton's presidential plane swap in Pakistan.

At least 38 people have been killed after a 7.7-magnitude earthquake struck Indonesia early on Saturday, the nation's disaster mitigation agency has said. The official death toll has been rising as a search and rescue operation gets under way.

A powerful magnitude 7.7 earthquake struck off the coast of the Indonesian island of Flores Saturday morning, killing at least 38 people, damaging buildings and forcing residents to flee their homes.

A 7.7-magnitude earthquake struck near an island in eastern Indonesia, killing at least 20 and collapsing several buildings.

Indonesian authorities issued, then lifted, a tsunami warning after the powerful earthquake hit Saturday morning.

The Latvian military said a drone that entered the country's airspace overnight was shot down by NATO Baltic Air Policing jets.

NATO jets shot down a drone that flew into Latvia’s eastern air space, the Ministry of Defense said on Friday.

NATO said Friday its fighter jets shot down a drone that entered Latvian airspace, the latest incursion along the military alliance's eastern flank bordering Russia. This was the second time that

NATO fighters shot down a foreign drone over Latvia as Finland briefly restricted airspace and sea areas amid heightened Baltic security concerns.

Italian authorities have recovered three stolen artworks by Renoir, Cézanne, and Matisse worth millions of euros

Italian authorities have recovered three stolen paintings by Renoir, Cézanne, and Matisse worth millions of euros

Italian authorities recovered three artworks by Renoir, Cézanne and Matisse worth millions of euros that were stolen earlier this year from a private museum near the northern city of Parma, police said Friday.

Italian police ⁠have ⁠recovered three paintings ⁠by French masters Paul Cezanne, Pierre-Auguste ​Renoir and Henri Matisse that were stolen from a ‌museum near the northern ‌city of Parma in March, officials said ⁠on ⁠Friday.

Colombia is grappling with the aftermath of a devastating earthquake that killed at least 287 people and affected more than 100,000.

Colombia is grappling with the aftermath of a 7.4-magnitude earthquake that struck Monday, affecting a large part of the western region

Organizations throughout Chicagoland have been racing to gather donations to help victims of the recent earthquake in Colombia.

Rescuers raced against time in Colombia on Friday to free a man found alive beneath a collapsed hotel, a rare sign of hope nearly four days after ​one of the strongest earthquakes to hit the Andean nation in decades reduced ‌neighborhoods to rubble and left hundreds dead or missing.