Senate Democrats blocked a $852 billion bill that would fund the Defense Department through September, rejecting Republican efforts to approve individual full-year spending bills as the government sh...

The Senate on Tuesday failed to reach the 60 votes needed to advance the House-passed bill to end the government shutdown and extend funding into next month, with no new Democrats offering their supp...

Col. Michael Randrianirina, the commander of an elite army unit, took the oath of office to become the new president at a ceremony in the main chamber of the nation’s High Constitutional Court.

Colonel Michael Randrianirina, whose army faction seized power in Madagascar on Tuesday after weeks of deadly anti-government protests, said he will be sworn in as president.

The African Union announced on Wednesday that the bloc had suspended Madagascar with immediate effect following the coup, and called for the restoration of civilian-led governance as well as election...

The Israeli army said a strike on Yemen on Aug. 28, which killed the premier of the Houthi government and other ministers, also eliminated the militant group’s chief of general staff — in what the Israel Defense Forces labeled a “severe blow.