A new wave of Taliban attacks killed at least nine Afghan soldiers and policemen on Tuesday, officials said, the latest in a particularly deadly week of assaults by militants. At least five soldiers were killed when their checkpoint was attacked by the Taliban in western Farah province,...

A high-ranking Daesh (ISIS) official who fought alongside the group in Syria was arrested earlier this month before managing to carry out any terrorist acts in Lebanon, the Internal Security Forces announced Tuesday.

Japan's Economy Minister Toshimitsu Motegi said on Tuesday that bilateral talks on trade under a new framework led by him and U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer won't begin until mid-June at the earliest. In a summit last week, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and U.S....

Former President George H.W. Bush has been hospitalized in Houston with an infection, just after attending the funeral of his wife, Barbara, a spokesman said Monday. Jim McGrath said on Twitter that the 93-year-old Bush is "responding to treatments and appears to be recovering." He was...