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The first major effort to overhaul America’s gun laws in two decades has hit a roadblock in Congress. The Senate voted down a bipartisan proposal to expand background check requirements for firearms purchasers, dealing a severe blow to gun control efforts just four months after a mass shooting at a Connecticut elementary school.

A massive explosion at a fertilizer plant in the southwestern U.S. state of Texas Wednesday evening has injured dozens of people and left an unknown number of people dead.

Internally displaced people in the Central African Republic.

Somali refugees wait on Yemen's Red Sea coast for transport to Aden.

Delivering food to people like these kids in Syria is getting harder and more dangerous every day.

Somali authorities say suicide bombings and assaults by al-Qaida-linked al-Shabab militants on Mogadishu's main court complex killed at least 22 people and wounded 18 others Sunday, breaking a fragile return to peace.

Special Representative Augustine Mahiga.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry’s suggestion of negotiations with North Korea has provoked a mixed reaction from U.S. lawmakers.