Five Afghan police officers and 5 NATO soldiers died in two separate attacks Thursday in southern Afghanistan. Officials in Helmand province say the Afghan police officers died when Taliban insurgents attacked their police post in Gereshk overnig ...
The Taliban insurgents responsible for shooting down a United States military helicopter on Saturday have been killed in an airstrike in Wardak province, according to U.S. military and NATO officials. NATO said Taliban leader Mullah Mohibullah an ...
A 50-year-old United States citizen is being held in connection with the disappearance of his female friend in Aruba, authorities announced Tuesday.
Russian authorities say all eleven people on board a downed cargo plane are believed to be dead. The Antonov An-12 aircraft crashed Tuesday near the village of Omsukchan in the Magadan region of East Siberia. Shortly before the crash, the pilot r ...
After a third night of riots in which hooded teens took to the streets on London looting stores, burning buildings and creating chaos, British Prime Minister David Cameron vowed to bring the “full force of the law” down upon those responsible.
Just two days after 30 United States soldiers were killed in a helicopter crash, another NATO helicopter went down in eastern Afghanistan Monday morning.
Officials in southwest Pakistan have confirmed three police officers were killed Sunday in a shooting. According to reports, the trio was patrolling New Saryab, a town outside Quetta in Balochistan province, when armed men ambushed them and fired ...
Australian authorities say Wednesday’s bizarre incident involving a collar bomb, a masked man and 18-year-old Madeleine Pulver was a “very serious attempted extortion.” The incident is currently under investigation and police have not named any s ...
A polar bear attacked a group of tourists early Friday in remote Norway, mauling one person to death and seriously wounding four others. According to authorities, all five men involved in the attack were on a camping trip with the British Schools ...
A helicopter operated by Indonesia’s PT Nyaman Air crashed Wednesday on Sulawesi Island near the city of Manado, killing nine people and injuring one. The helicopter was en route to Halmahera Island.
Australian authorities were dealing with a “very serious and sensitive matter” involving an 18-year-old girl and an explosive device Wednesday afternoon at a home in the Sydney suburb of Mosman. The New South Wales police department confirmed bom ...
Authorities in northern Argentina have arrested a man in connection with the brutal murders of two French tourists last week. Police officer Jose Hinojosa said the suspect, whose name has not been released, was arrested Monday morning. The man wa ...
Pakistani authorities have confirmed two children, both around 12 years old, were killed Monday when a bomb exploded in Quetta, the capital of Balochistan province. The bomb was planted in a garbage dump near a gas station on the outskirts of the ...
Eighteen people died Friday in Afghanistan’s Helmand province when the bus they were traveling in hit an improvised explosive device. The death toll could rise as authorities have yet to establish the exact number of passengers inside the bus.
Tropical Storm Juaning claimed the lives of at least 27 people this week in the Philippines. The National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council have dispatched rescue teams to find the injured and missing, with numbered 60 as of Thursday.
A mayor in southern Afghanistan was killed in a suicide attack Wednesday, local officials confirmed. Authorities say Kandahar mayor Ghulam Haidar Hamidi was leaving a city hall meeting when a suicide bomber detonated his explosives. Hamidi died i ...
Swollen rivers and landslides triggered by days of heavy rain left 31 dead in South Korea. The National Emergency Management Agency reported at least 10 people are missing and feared dead. Hundreds of others were forced to leave their homes.
The Moroccan military has confirmed 78 people died and 3 others were seriously injured Tuesday morning when a plane belonging to the Royal Armed Forces crashed in Guelmim.
A young boy was abducted and hanged over the weekend by militants in southern Afghanistan. Authorities say “terrorists” killed 8-year-old Mohammed Ibrahim after the boy’s father, Helmand Province police officer Mohammed Daoud, refused to comply w ...
Days after the United Nations declared famine in parts of southern Somalia and vowed to provide aid to the affected areas, Islamist militants reversed their decision to lift a ban on foreign aid in regions they control. Al Shabaab originally impo ...