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One of Nguyen Ngoc Hanh’s most iconic images depicts a young war widow clutching her late husband’s dog tags — a photograph recognized by almost every South Vietnamese.

Critics say the string of evacuations, which could see some 30,000 people moved across battle lines over the next 60 days, amounts to forced displacement along political and sectarian lines.

President Ashraf Ghani has met with the U.S. National Security Adviser H. R. McMaster and both sides discussed mutual cooperation.

With 97 percent of the ballots counted in Turkey's historic referendum, those who back constitutional changes greatly expanding President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's powers had a narrow lead Sunday night, the official Anadolu news agency said.

A fire that burned for hours consumed the Burger King here Sunday afternoon, giving base firefighters all they could handle on Easter.

The U.S. Homeland Security secretary on Sunday defended plans to hire thousands of additional immigration and border-control agents, saying the Trump administration's lower bar on criminal behavior by undocumented immigrants merits a larger force.

The spokesman for the Joint Operation Command in Iraq says the Islamic State group has attacked government troops with some type of gas in western Mosul - the second such attack in as many days.

President Donald Trump's national security adviser is expressing doubt the U.S. will send more ground troops to Syria. His comments come as rebel forces appear close to launching an assault to capture the Islamic State group's de facto capital of Raqqa.

Thousands of Hungarians have taken part in a march remembering the 550,000 Hungarian Jews who died during the Holocaust.

For more than a half century, Women’s Army Corps veteran Isolde Zitzewitz’s wallet sat lodged in a drainpipe six stories above downtown Spokane.

A group of British legislators is urging the government to remove the citizenship of Syrian President Bashar Assad's British-born wife.

U.S. Vice President Mike Pence is embarking on a 10-day, four-nation tour of the Asia-Pacific this weekend, arriving in South Korea after a failed missile launch by the North. His visit comes amid tensions over North Korea's aggressive flaunting of its nuclear and missile program.

President Donald Trump says "someone should look into who paid" for the rallies around the country Saturday that urged him to release his tax returns.

Italian rescue ships have plucked some 2,000 migrants from unseaworthy smugglers' boats off the coast of Libya, with hundreds of them arriving Saturday in southern Italian ports.

Voting has ended in Turkey's historic referendum on whether to approve constitutional changes that would greatly expand the powers of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

A Somali police officer says security forces shot dead two Islamic extremist fighters who were involved in a mortar attack in the Somali capital early Sunday.

When United States forces arrived in England in 1942 and when its allies celebrated V-E day in May 1945, it was not envisioned how the world would change, and that the United States and others would be military partners in Europe today.

South Sudan's three-year civil war has grown more intense in recent weeks. U.N. officials repeatedly have warned of the risk of genocide.

One issue to decide is whether the White House will send more troops to the conflict, now in its 16th year.

The 23 posters in the exhibit represent three major themes: military recruitment, the conservation of food and other material essential to the war effort, and urging people to buy "Liberty" bonds.

In an interview with The Associated Press, a senior North Korean official said Friday that Pyongyang has determined that Trump is "more vicious and aggressive" than his predecessor, Barack Obama.

Preparations for the 143-mile trek have taken nearly a year, and the unit's mechanics have been hopping to make sure all of its trucks and eight-wheeled, 18-ton Stryker vehicles are ready for the long haul.

Critics say the string of evacuations, which could see some 30,000 people moved across battle lines over the next 60 days, amounts to forced displacement along political and sectarian lines.

Local human rights groups have said the charges were fabricated and part of a crackdown by Egypt's government on civil society.

In recent weeks there has been a resurgence of piracy off Somalia's coast, after five years of inactivity.