BEIRUT – Activists say a bomb has exploded inside a mosque where al-Qaida’s branch in Syria was holding a fast-breaking meal, killing at least 14. Activists say the bombing inside the Salem Mosque in the northern town of Ariha occurred shortly after sunset Friday when scores of Nusra Front members …

SEOUL, South Korea – Samsung Electronics Co. forecasts its second-quarter profit has dropped 4 percent from a year earlier. The maker of Galaxy smartphones said in its earnings preview Tuesday that its April-June operating profit was 6.9 trillion won ($6.1 billion). The consensus among analysts was 7.23 trillion won, according …

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. – Attorneys in federal cases stemming from crimes on American Indian reservations have new guidance on what’s needed to prove a defendant is Indian. Federal authorities have jurisdiction over major crimes on tribal land when the victim, suspect or both are American Indian. A two-part test determines who …

BERN, Switzerland – One of the seven FIFA officials arrested in Zurich as part of an American corruption probe has agreed to be extradited to the United States, Swiss authorities said Friday. Switzerland’s Federal Office of Justice didn’t identify the official involved, saying in a statement that he “wished not …

LONDON – Prince William says he’s nervous but looking forward to getting started as he begins working as an air ambulance pilot based at Cambridge Airport. The second-in-line to Britain’s throne clocked in Monday for his first shift for East Anglian Air Ambulance and checked over his H145 helicopter, together …

BEIJING – The British Embassy in Beijing says 11 Britons have been detained in northern China and that it is trying to find out why. The embassy cited a British Foreign Office statement that said nine Britons and two dual British-South African nationals had been detained in northern China and …

A U.S.-led coalition dropped new leaflets over the de facto capital of the Islamic State group in Syria, promising those below that “freedom will come” to the region, activists said Sunday. An anti-Islamic State group called Raqqa is Being Silently Slaughtered and the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said …

In a column I wrote in early July, based on research by my colleagues and my own analysis of government documents and witness statements, I argued that in 2011 and 2012 then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton waged a secret war on the governments of Libya and Syria, with the approval …

All it took was 140 characters for Texas Christian University to suspend a conservative student who posted a series of social networking posts that insulted the Islamic State, the Baltimore rioters and Mexicans. TCU banned Harry Vincent from most campus activities, ordered him to perform 60 hours of community service …

MOSCOW – Russia’s human rights commissioner says the Ukrainian servicewoman charged in the deaths of two Russian journalists is being sent to a detention facility in western Russia as her trial looms closer. Nadezhda Savchenko, a military pilot, allegedly was working as a spotter in eastern Ukraine and provided the …