What's News: Militants attacked a major oil refinery in the northern Iraqi city of Baiji overnight. WSJ/NBC poll shows President Obama's approval rate sits at 41%. 20 months after superstorm Sandy smashed the eastern U.S., tens of thousands are still waiting ...

Things look terrible for the U.S. in the Middle East right now. They don't have to. It's a rule of thumb in the Middle East that every crisis also carries the seeds of opportunity. So, even with Sunni extremists swallowing up territory and threatening the ...

The deteriorating security situation in Iraq roiled financial markets for a second day Friday, sending crude prices to their highest level since early September and pushing stock markets lower. Insurgents continued to threaten Iraqi cities and, the market fears, ...

Residents in Mosul, Iraq, are fleeing the region in fear for their lives, while al Qaeda-inspired militant group ISIS release unverified audio vowing to march on Baghdad. Up Next. Top News. MARKETS. FEATURED. CAN'T MISS. BARRON'S. PROGRAMS ...

DAMASCUS, Syria—Government supporters stuffed ballot boxes and staged rallies inside polling stations in an election that President Bashar al-Assad is expected to use as a mandate to prosecute the civil war. Opponents of the regime inside and outside ...

DAMASCUS, Syria—Government supporters stuffed ballot boxes and staged rallies inside polling stations in an election that President Bashar al-Assad is expected to use as a mandate to prosecute the civil war. Opponents of the regime inside and outside ...

SÃO PAULO--Less than two weeks before the World Cup kickoff, soccer's organizing body FIFA will put another 180,000 tickets up for sale, after delays in building stadiums forced the organization to wait until the last minute to calculate exactly how many ...

The Shangri-La Dialogue held annually in Singapore has become Asia's premier forum for sniping about regional security, and the snark gets most of the headlines. But this weekend included more substance. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe pledged Japan would ...

This handout file photo taken in January 2014 and released by the Vicenza diocese on April 7 shows Italian priests Gianpaolo Marta, right, and Gianantonio Alllegri, left, standing with Vicenza's Bishop Beniamino Pizziol, second right, and a resident during a ...

The U.S. now believes the Russians have pulled back "a majority" of the troops that had been stationed on the Ukrainian border, a senior U.S. defense official said Thursday. The official said approximately seven battalions remain. A battalion is roughly 1,000 ...

The number of measles cases in the U.S. has hit a new high since the highly contagious disease was officially declared eliminated 14 years ago, in the latest sign of a troubling resurgence. The 288 cases reported in 18 states as of May 23 is the highest ...

The number of measles cases in the U.S. has hit a new high since the highly contagious disease was officially declared eliminated 14 years ago, in the latest sign of a troubling resurgence. The 288 cases reported in 18 states as of May 23 is the highest ...

A day after the temporary Facebook outage in Thailand, questions remain over the cause. The WSJ's Ramy Inocencio speaks with Newley Purnell in Bangkok about the importance of social media in Thailand's political travails. BANGKOK—A gathering that ...

Hackers apparently based in Iran have mounted a three-year campaign of cyberespionage against high-ranking U.S. and international officials, according to cybersecurity investigators. Siobhan Gorman reports. Photo: Getty. Up Next ...

BANGKOK--A gathering that Thai officials held Thursday to discuss online anticoup dissent didn't go as planned for the military--because there were no social-networking companies in attendance. "There are no social-media operators are here at all," Maj.

BANGKOK--A gathering that Thai officials held Thursday to discuss online anticoup dissent didn't go as planned for the military--because there were no social-networking companies in attendance. "There are no social-media operators are here at all," Maj.

BANGKOK--A gathering that Thai officials held Thursday to discuss online anticoup dissent didn't go as planned for the military--because there were no social-networking companies in attendance. "There are no social-media operators are here at all," Maj.

Edward Snowden and top Obama administration officials continued lobbing intercontinental taunts at one another Wednesday, showing little sign of an end to the hostilities between Washington and the former contractor who leaked some of the National ...

A growing number of Brazilians are against hosting the World Cup, which they say has done little to improve infrastructure and public services. Photo: Getty Images. RIO DE JANEIRO—Not too long ago, Tarcísio Monteiro was so obsessed with World Cup ...

A pro-Russian fighter takes position behind a car as a truck full of pro-Russian fighters. Agence France-Presse/Getty Images. 'No need to hurry,” says the man clad in camouflage, his face hidden by a balaclava, “they won't run away.” On Tuesday morning ...