A suicide car bomber killed 18 people in the eastern Afghan city of Khost on Saturday, the first day of the holy fasting month of Ramadan, the interior ministry said. Ministry spokesman Najib Danish...
Hundreds of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails on hunger strike since April 17 have ended their protest, Palestinian and Israeli sources said on Saturday. Palestinian Prisoners Club chief Qaddura...
Philippine security forces dropped more bombs Saturday on a southern city where they have been battling Islamist militants for five days, vowing no let up despite the start of Ramadan. President...
The funeral of some victims killed in the attack took place later in the day (EPA) Egyptian forces have struck "terrorist training camps" in retaliation for an attack on Coptic Christians, President...
Mourners sang, women sobbed and men cried out in anger in a packed Egyptian church at the funeral of some of the 28 Coptic Christians killed in Friday's bus attack. Eight wooden coffins were lined up...
President Donald Trump on Friday decried an attack on Coptic Christians in Egypt that left at least 28 dead, calling on allies to band together to defeat terrorism. "The bloodletting of Christians...
As many as 200,000 Iraqis may try in the coming days to flee areas of Mosul under the control of the Islamic State group after the government asked civilians to seek safety across the frontline, the...
The US military will try to intercept an intercontinental ballistic missile in a test of a defense system that comes amid broad tensions over North Korea's weapons program, the Pentagon said Friday....
Reports of civilian deaths from US-led air strikes in Iraq and Syria have soared in recent months, raising questions about whether President Donald Trump's order to "annihilate" the Islamic State...
Rights groups on Friday accused the Ugandan government of inaction over the deadly assault by security forces on a tribal king's palace six months ago, renewing their call for an independent probe....
Tunisian authorities on Friday froze the assets of eight businessmen suspected of corruption, including some already under house arrest. Graft was widespread under longtime president Zine El Abidine...
The Military High Command has concluded investigations on the involvement of some soldiers in the protection of illegal mining sites in the Ashanti Region. This followed an order for a probe last...
Friday's attack on a bus carrying Egyptian Copts, which killed at least 28 people, was the latest in a wave of massacres of Christians and attacks on churches in the Middle East. - January 1, 2011:...
Britain has arrested a "large part" of the network behind Manchester's suicide bomb attack, police said on Friday, as the government came under fire for cutting police budgets and election...
The United Nations warned Friday that an energy crisis in the Gaza Strip was severely affecting water supplies and health services, and could trigger an outbreak of violence. UN envoy Nickolay...
Dozens of relatives of Islamic State fighters were killed on Friday in new US-led strikes on Syria, just hours after the UN urged nations striking the jihadists to protect civilians. Bombing raids by...
Manchester suicide bomber Salem Abedi used a powerful explosive device that was painstakingly assembled -- likely with assistance -- for his deadly attack on a pop concert, according to officials and...
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte joked Friday that soldiers could rape up to three women, as he reassured them of his full support under his newly imposed regional martial law. Duterte, who often...
Masked gunmen attacked a bus carrying Coptic Christians on a visit to a monastery south of the Egyptian capital on Friday, killing at least 26 people including many children, officials said. The...
A US-led coalition air strike on the eastern Syrian town of Mayadeen early Friday killed at least 80 relatives of Islamic State group fighters, a monitoring group told AFP. "The toll includes 33...
