Some 80 shops and businesses on the Champs-Elysees avenue in Paris were vandalised this weekend when "yellow vest" protesters went on the rampage, with about 20 looted or torched, retailers said on Sunday. Saturday's demonstrations were characterised by a sharp increase in violence after...

Two Palestinian groups said Sunday a shooting attack in the occupied West Bank that killed an Israeli settler was a "response" to Israeli assaults against the Palestinians. In a statement, Palestinian group Hamas described the attack as "heroic", saying it came to respond to Israeli...

Around 100 Afghan soldiers fled their posts and tried to cross into neighboring Turkmenistan during a weeklong battle with the Taliban, officials said Sunday, in the latest setback for the country's battered security forces. Mohammad Naser Nazari, a provincial council member in the western...

The sparring between India and Pakistan last month threatened to spiral out of control and only interventions by U.S. officials, including National Security Advisor John Bolton, headed off a bigger conflict, five sources familiar with the events said. At one stage, India threatened to fire...