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Syrian activists say suspected U.S.-led airstrikes have killed 14 militants and five civilians in northeastern Syria.

Australian police say the terror suspect shot and killed this week after attacking two officers may have not been working alone, as investigators initially thought.

Wide view of the Security Council at its summit held at the level of Heads of Government to address the threat posed by foreign terrorist fighters.

As the General Assembly began the general debate of its sixty-ninth session, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon presented to the Assembly his annual report on the work of the Organization.

The U.S. military has conducted a major joint exercise in western Pacific waters. The exercise comes amid rising concern about encounters involving China and other countries in disputed waters of the East and South China Sea, and airstrikes against Islamic militants in Syria.

President Barack Obama goes before the United Nations to deliver a speech Wednesday focusing on the fight against Islamic State militants.

New UN report says investment in climate change adaptation can help promote the ivelihoods of 65 per cent of Africans.

The United States and a group of five Arab countries have carried out air strikes against Islamic State militants in Syria.

A Chinese court has convicted a prominent Uighur on separatism charges and sentenced him to life in prison, in a ruling slammed by rights groups as unusually harsh.

More than 130,000 refugees have flooded into Turkey from Syria in the past few days, as the jihadist group Islamic State bears down on the Syrian border town of Kobane. Turkish authorities clashed with hundreds of Kurdish protesters, many of whom want to cross into Syria to defend fellow Kurds from the onslaught. The militant group, also known as ISIS, released a statement Monday urging Muslims to kill Westerners whose countries have joined the campaign against it.