Official news agency says Travis King defected over unhappiness with 'inhuman mistreatment and racial discrimination' in military, though impossible to verify Pyongyang propaganda

Tehran claims annual drill is for 'peace and security', however its army has seized at least 5 foreign commercial vessels in Strait of Hormuz in the last two years

Officials believe initiative will encourage other countries to comply with 1997 international Chemical Weapons Convention - which Israel has signed but not ratified

Officials say Ethan Melzer joined military to infiltrate on behalf of group espousing antisemitic, Satanic beliefs in 'one of the most stunning betrayals' from within armed forces

Brett McGurk, top White House official on region, says 'something long talked about is now being done, through innovative partnerships and new technologies'

Instead of zipping past each other, convoys backing opposing sides of Syrian civil war stop to chat, pose for pictures and exchange uniform patches as momentos of the interaction

Monitoring group says American operation is the first of its kind in regime-held areas of the war-torn country

In 'The English GI,' Jonathan Sandler brings to life an unlikely series of events starting with a class trip to America that led to his grandfather fighting Nazis in a US uniform

According to The Wall Street Journal, the process is meant to ensure Israeli attacks on Iranian targets do not interfere with American operations in country's east

Three cavalry scouts tell UK's Daily Mail the eight bright objects they spotted flying over the peninsula were not man-made