Anti-protest mob attacks Hong Kong student camp Several hundred pro-Beijing demonstrators opposed to a week-long protest led by Hong Kong's Occupy Central movement in Hong Kong have broken through police lines, smashing the pro-democracy protesters' tents and scuffling with student activists.October 3, 2014
Afghanistan signs deal allowing 10,000 U.S. troops to remain The country's newly inaugurated president, Ashraf Ghani, signed the Bilateral Security Agreement, or BSA, which would leave in place the U.S. troops and a few others from NATO allies to bolster Afghan forces.September 30, 2014
U.K. approves joining anti-ISIS airstrikes in Iraq The 524-to-43 vote in Parliament came after an lengthy debate that followed the latest U.S. airstrikes in Iraq and Syria on targets of the hard-line Islamist group.September 26, 2014
FBI: About a dozen Americans fighting in Syria The number of Americans the government believes is fighting alongside extremist groups in Syria is almost one-tenth the number cited by government officials and lawmakers for months.September 25, 2014
FBI chief says U.S. has identified man suspected of beheading Americans NPR's Brian Naylor reports that FBI Director James Comey declined to identify the masked man, shown in videos released by the Sunni militant group Islamic State, who is thought to have beheaded two American journalists.September 25, 2014