Iraqi officials have confirmed at least 63 people were killed Thursday in a series of explosions targeting Shiites. The attacks happened in the southern city of Nasiriyah and the capital, Baghdad.
Pakistani security forces acting on intelligence information killed six suspected Taliban militants and arrested 13 others Wednesday morning in Balochistan province. A senior official identified as Hamid ul Karim said intelligence led the militar ...
Three separate explosions rocked Kandahar province, Afghanistan Tuesday, leaving a total of 14 people dead and 32 others injured. All three bombs were detonated in Kandahar City.
British police have confirmed human remains were found Sunday on a 20,000-acre country estate belonging to Queen Elizabeth. According to reports, a “member of the public” found the body of a woman in a wooded area about 3 miles from Sandringham H ...
Police in Pakistan say a car bomb detonated outside a house in Quetta, Balochistan province killed 10 people, but failed to kill the intended target. At least 30 people were wounded in the blast.
Four civilians died and one other was wounded Friday when their vehicle hit a roadside bomb. The incident occurred in Trinkot city, Uruzgan province. The Taliban did not claim responsibility for planting the bomb, but Uruzgan CID chief Gulab Khan ...
India’s southeastern states of Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu and the union territory of Puducherry were battered by Cyclone Thane on Friday. The storm brought 86 mph winds and heavy rain. Hundreds of trees were uprooted, roads flooded, houses wer ...
A rogue Afghan soldier opened fire on NATO forces in Tagab valley Thursday, leaving two French soldiers dead. French Defense Minister Gerard Longuet confirmed the soldiers’ deaths and condemned the shooting as a “cowardly act.” The soldiers were ...
At least 35 Kurdish villagers mistaken for terrorists were killed Wednesday night along Turkey’s border with Iraq in an airstrike carried out by the Turkish military. Officials say the attack was launched because the villagers were initially thou ...
Officials in Kyrgyzstan say at least 31 people were injured Wednesday when a Kyrgyzstan Airlines plane traveling from Bishkek crash-landed at an airport in Osh. The Tupolev Tu-134 aircraft was landing in thick fog when it suddenly skidded off the ...
A top drug trafficker with ties to the Sinaloa drug cartel was arrested Tuesday in southern Mexico. According to federal police, Luis Rodriguez Olivera was taken into custody at the airport in Mexico City. Officials did not release details on wha ...
Somali pirates hijacked an Italian tanker early Tuesday morning in the Arabian Sea, officials have confirmed. The Enrico levoli, owned by Naples-based Marnavi, was loaded with 16,000 tons of caustic soda from the United Arab Emirates when it was ...
At least three earthquakes struck near Christchurch, New Zealand Friday, prompting authorities to close the Christchurch airport. The New Zealand Ministry of Civil Defense and Emergency Management reported at least two people were injured. Damage ...
An Australian court sentenced a teen boy Thursday to 13 years in prison for the stabbing death of an Indian college student in January 2010. The 16-year-old, who has not been identified because he is a minor, pleaded guilty to murder and attempte ...
Officials in the Philippines say the death toll from Tropical Storm Washi has risen from 927 to over 1,000. According to the head of the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council, the official death toll stood at 1,002 on Wednesday. ...
A police officer who had been kidnapped Monday night in Mexico’s Chihuahua state was burned alive Tuesday in the middle of a Ciudad Juarez street. Prosecutors say unknown assailants dumped Jose Everardo, whose hands and feet were bound, in the mi ...
Indonesian authorities say a search and rescue operation continued Tuesday for at least 200 migrants of the Middle East who went missing when their boat capsized near the coast on Saturday. Disaster management officials were notified of the accid ...
Tropical Storm Washi ripped through the southern Philippines over the weekend leaving death and destruction in its wake. According to an official with the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council, Washi forced an estimated 88,000 p ...
North Korean news outlets announced Monday the death of longtime leader Kim Jong-il. Weeping news anchors reported Jong-il, who had been receiving treatment for “cardiac and cerebrovascular diseases,” died of a heart attack Saturday around 8:30 a ...
Radioactive material was found in an Iranian national’s luggage at the Sheremetyevo International Airport in Moscow on Friday, Russia’s Federal Customs Service announced in a statement. The airport’s radiation alert system detected radiation leve ...