A complex suicide attack followed by gunfight claimed at least 21 lives in eastern Afghanistan, an official confirmed on Wednesday. The attack occurred near a domestic airport in the Nangarhar province. Attaullah Khogyani, spokesman for the provincial governor, told Anadolu Agency that...

Officials say Indian and Pakistani soldiers have shelled military outposts and villages along their highly militarized frontier in disputed Kashmir, in new violence despite stepped-up diplomatic efforts by the countries to ease tensions. The two armies accused each other of initiating the...

Eighty-seven migrants in a wooden boat have been rescued off the Italian island of Lampedusa and are due to arrive in Malta on Wednesday, officials said. Malta's armed forces said one of its patrol boats took in the migrants late on Tuesday after an Italian vessel sent to rescue them broke...

United Nations human rights chief Michelle Bachelet said on Wednesday that she regretted Israel's "immediate dismissal" of a U.N. report on its security forces killing protesters in Gaza "without addressing any of the very serious issues raised". Independent U.N. investigators found last...