A car bomb explosion followed by several blasts and rapid gunfire rocked the Afghan capital on Tuesday, not far from the heavily fortified Green Zone that houses several embassies, including the US mission.
Residents were urged Tuesday to evacuate a besieged Afghan city as the army prepared a major offensive against Taliban insurgents after three days of heavy fighting.
At least 16 people were killed in an attack in the Democratic Republic of Congo's conflict-plagued east, believed to be the work of armed Islamists, military and local sources said Tuesday.
Residents of a besieged Afghan city were urged to evacuate Tuesday as the army prepared a major offensive against Taliban insurgents after three days of heavy fighting.
The Taliban's supreme leader Hibatullah Akhundzada on Sunday said he "strenuously favours" a political settlement to the conflict in Afghanistan even as the...
Thousands marched across France Saturday to protest against President Emmanuel Macron's plans to force vaccination of health workers and require a COVID-19...
Ten Belgian children and six mothers have been recovered from a prison camp for captured jihadists in Syria and flown home to Belgium, the government said...
France's justice minister was charged on Friday in a conflict of interest inquiry after nearly six hours of questioning by investigating magistrates, hi...
Lebanese Hospital Geitaoui UMC was one of three major hospitals in Beirut knocked out by the mammoth explosion in the port last August that catapulted the...
Lebanon marks the first anniversary of the deadly Beirut Port explosion amid a political stalemate that for a year has left the country without a fully...
One person died and three were injured when a fire broke out on a military bus in a heavily fortified army compound in Damascus early on Wednesday, Syrian...
Oman on Wednesday identified the Panama-flagged Asphalt Princess as the tanker involved in a hijacking which Britain's maritime trade agency earlier said was...
A pro-Kurdish opposition lawmaker returned to parliament on Friday after Turkey's top court ruled that his jailing on terror charges violated his...
More than 1,000 people were missing and more houses were destroyed in flood-stricken regions in western Germany and Belgium on Friday where further flooding...
The deadly violence that has rocked South Africa for the past week was planned, President Cyril Ramaphosa said Friday, as authorities said they ha...
The United States is preparing to impose sanctions on Friday on a number of Chinese officials over Beijing's crackdown on democracy in Hong Kong, and warn...
Reuters journalist Danish Siddiqui was killed on Friday while covering a clash between Afghan security forces and Taliban fighters near a border crossin...
Street protests broke out overnight over severe water shortages in Iran's oil-rich southwest, according to Iranian news outlets and videos posted on social...
ecord rainfall across western Europe swept through towns and villages, leaving cars upended, houses destroyed and people stranded on rooftops.
Pakistan said on Thursday traces of explosives had been detected during an initial investigation into a bus blast that killed 13 people, including nin...
More than 237,000 people have been forced to abandon their homes in the past six months in Burkina Faso, a country facing deadly jihadist attacks, bringin...
Russia on Wednesday launched military exercises in Tajikistan as the Taliban continue their blistering offensive in neighbouring Afghanistan.
Pope Francis has left the Rome hospital where he underwent intestinal surgery 11 days ago, Sky Italia television reported on Wednesday.
Iran could enrich uranium up to 90% purity if the country needed it, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on Wednesday, amid efforts by Tehran and six world...
U.S. prosecutors have charged four Iranians, alleged to be intelligence operatives for Tehran, with plotting to kidnap a New York journalist and human rights...
France on Tuesday called on all its citizens in Afghanistan to leave the country over security concerns, the French embassy in Kabul said, as the Taliban...
The UN Human Rights Council on Tuesday called for those behind "massive scale" enforced disappearances in Syria over the past decade of conflict to be held...
President Joe Biden on Tuesday will speak in Philadelphia, the birthplace of the US constitution, to warn that Republican maneuvering is putting democracy in...
Next year's presidential elections in France will take place in April, with the first round on the 10th and the runoff on the 24th, government spokesman...
The Taliban warned Turkey on Tuesday against plans to keep some troops in Afghanistan to run and guard Kabul's main airport after the withdrawal of foreign...
Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel on Monday blamed U.S. sanctions, tightened in recent years, for the medicine shortages, power outages and other economic...
US law enforcement and national security officials met with Haiti's leaders and police to offer assistance in the wake of president Jovenel Moise's...
Pope Francis will spend a few more days in hospital following his colon surgery, the Vatican said Monday, adding that the football-mad pontiff was cheered by...