An early morning air strike in Afghanistan sparked protests against NATO and the United States after officials confirmed women and children died in the raid. Khost province police chief Mohamad Zazai said a house in Dowamanda district was targete ...
197 Die in Boat Fire Off Sudan Coast
A Mexican tour boat carrying American and Mexican citizens sank in the Gulf of California Sunday morning. The charter boat Erik was carrying 27 United States tourists and 17 Mexican crew members when a storm caused it to capsize around 2:30 a.m. ...
Iraqi officials say dozens of people were killed Tuesday in two coordinated explosions outside a government building in Taji, a city north of Baghdad. Several media outlets have reported the first explosion was caused by a suicide bomber detonati ...
Five people died late Monday in what Norwegian authorities are calling the worst helicopter accident the country has ever had over land.
Flooding in the southern Philippine city of Davao has displaced 15,000 families and affected thousands of others. Officials said the death toll rose to 30 on Friday with the discovery of another body. At least one person remains missing and is pr ...
A senior member of the Haqqani network who provided “material support” for Tuesday’s attack on the Intercontinental Hotel in Kabul was killed Wednesday in southeast Afghanistan, according to the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force. T ...
Two French journalists held by Taliban militants in Afghanistan for nearly two years arrived safely outside Paris on Thursday.
Taliban militants freed two French journalists and an interpreter Wednesday, 18 months after they kidnapped the trio in Afghanistan. French authorities confirmed reporter Herve Ghesquiere, cameraman Stephane Taponier and interpreter Reza Din were ...
Pakistani authorities have arrested six soldiers and one civilian in the ruthless murder of an 18-year-old boy in a Karachi park on June 8. A man dragged Sarfraz Shah over to six Rangers patrolling the park and accused the teen of attempted robbe ...
The Taliban claimed responsibility for a deadly 7 hour siege on the Intercontinental Hotel in Kabul, Afghanistan Tuesday night. Eight heavily armed suicide attackers entered the hotel around 10 p.m. after killing security guards, according to Tal ...
Two NATO oil tankers loaded with fuel for forces in Afghanistan were destroyed by armed attackers in two separate incidents on Monday in Pakistan’s Balochistan province.
At least 15 militants were killed late Monday in two separate drone strikes in Pakistan’s tribal region. Officials have confirmed three people died when two missiles apparently fired by a United States operated drone struck a vehicle traveling in ...
Authorities in Afghanistan have issued an arrest warrant for Abdul Qadeer Fitrat, the former governor of the central bank. Fitrat is suspected of being involved in the embezzlement of hundreds of millions of dollars from Afghan’s largest private ...
Pakistani officials say 21 Taliban militants died Monday in two suspected U.S. drone strikes. All of the strikes occurred in the tribal region of South Waziristan.
The United States military has confirmed two soldiers died over the weekend in northern Iraq. The soldiers were conducting operations when they were killed on Sunday. No other details were immediately available. The soldiers’ names will be releas ...
The International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants Monday for three members of the Gaddafi family. The warrants accuse Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi, his son Saif al Islam Gaddafi and his brother-in-law Abdullah al Sanussi of using governmen ...
A suicide attack on a hospital in eastern Afghanistan over the weekend left nearly three dozen people dead and numerous others wounded. Authorities say the attacker drove a car laden with explosives into the maternity ward of a hospital in the Az ...
Tropical Storm Meari battered the Philippines this week, dumping heavy rain, causing flashfloods and triggering landslides. Officials say at least 11 people are missing and some 50,000 have been displaced. The missing includes 10 fishermen in thr ...
Nearly two dozen people were killed Thursday in three separate explosions in Baghdad. An interior ministry official said the bombs were packed in wooden carts and detonated in the Shurt al Raba market area of the city. One of the bombs reportedly ...