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There are reports of at least two U.S. military strikes in Somalia, said to have targeted al-Qaida figures wanted for the bombing of two U.S. embassies in Africa in 1998. The Pentagon refuses to confirm or deny the operation.

U.S. and Iraqi government troops move deeper into the insurgent stronghold of Ramadi, as an overnight operation thrusts into the eastern part of the city, an area previously under insurgent control. Since U.S. forces captured the nearby town of Fallujah in November of 2004, Ramadi has been a main base of the insurgency.

On a visit to Iraq, President Trump contended that the U.S. shouldn't be the policeman of the world. Mary Louise Kelly talks to John R. Allen, former commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said the U.S. plans to withdraw all remaining embassy personnel this week. The country has been wracked with power outages, and President Nicolás Maduro blamed the U.S.

An American soldier dies in Baghdad after an attacker drops a grenade from an overpass onto a U.S. Humvee as it drives by. Meanwhile, U.S. forces are working to rebuild the health care system in Fallujah, a hotbed of Iraqi resistance. NPR's Eric Westervelt reports.

For 40 years, the U.S. and Iran have been locked in an almost nonstop confrontation.

As of Sunday, no mobile app store in the U.S. will be allowed to distribute or maintain the popular Chinese-owned apps, the Commerce Department says.

The U.S. ambassador to Israel, David Friedman, praised "the vision, the courage and the moral clarity" of President Trump in making the U.S. the first country to open an embassy in the disputed city.

The amount of meth seized in the U.S. more than doubled from 2017 to 2018. That translates to lots more meth, along with cocaine and other stimulants, on the streets — and likely more deaths.

The latest round of talks between the U.S. and China ended with no agreement on how to cut the trade deficit between the two countries.