Photo collection shows pontiff greeting nearly 150,000 faithful and world leaders at Vatican ceremony

President Trump’s conversation with President Ahmed al-Shara, who once led a branch of Al Qaeda, was the first time in 25 years that the leaders of the United States and Syria had met.

Pope Leo XIV, 69, was elected to take up the papal seat on Thursday, on the second day of the papal conclave’s deliberations.  Born Robert Prevost on Sept. 14, 1955 in Chicago, Ill., he was...

The AfD came second in Germany's February elections and has a record number of seats in the new parliament.

A massive explosion and fire rocked a port Saturday in southern Iran purportedly linked to a shipment of a chemical ingredient used to make missile propellant, killing eight people and inju...