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BAMAKO, Mali – Suspected Islamic extremists attacked an army checkpoint in Timbuktu early Tuesday, killing at least two soldiers and injuring one, the government said. Another soldier is missing and a search has been launched for the extremists who carried out the attacks with automatic weapons, Mali’s government said in …

JERUSALEM – Israel has unveiled an 1,800-year-old sarcophagus that workers found at a building site and initially tried to conceal. The Antiquities Authority called the sarcophagus, which was shown to media Thursday, “one of the most important and beautiful” ever found in Israel. The two-ton limestone coffin features a life-size …

Editor’s note: The following column is excerpted from Eric Metaxas’s new book, “7 WOMEN & The Secret of their Greatness” (Thomas Nelson, September 8, 2015). Last year I was in Skopje, the capital city of what is called by some the Republic of Macedonia and by others FYROM (Former Yugoslav …