The United States pledged $1 billion in security assistance to Colombia after its new right-wing president took office. Abelardo de la Espriella, a millionaire lawyer with a taste for spectacle, took office Friday for his four-year term after a campaign focused on anger and fears about security.

Jorge Messi, the father of soccer star and Argentina captain Lionel Messi, died Saturday at a hospital in the central Argentina city of Rosario. He was 68. The Rosario-based Club Atlético Newell’s Old Boys announced his death in a social media post that said he had undergone treatment in recent months for an unspecified

Iraqi authorities said Saturday that they are investigating an explosion that struck a base belonging to the Popular Mobilization Forces, a coalition of Iran-allied militias, overnight, killing one person and injuring eight.

Two drones have been spotted flying over a German military base in the western part of the country earlier this week, just two days after a drone carrying explosives was found at a key cargo

Lebanese authorities have detained a former senior Syrian military officer who commanded an army division under ousted President Bashar Assad. Officials say they might hand him over to Damascus

Belgrade will support Ukraine's independence and aims to improve economic cooperation ‌between the two countries, President Aleksandar Vucic said on Saturday, but he stopped short of any pledge to impose sanctions on Serbia's long-time ally Russia.

Five school staff members died in the shooting outside Bangkok. The shooter also appeared to have killed his two grandparents.

Victims of a six-month jihadi kidnapping in Nigeria's Kwara State describe starvation, forced births, and burying fellow captives in a forest hideout.