The U.N. warned of a deepening crisis Tuesday after another asylum-seeker was found dead at a Pacific island detention camp, urging Australia to ensure protection for vulnerable refugees as closure of the facility nears. Canberra sends anyone who tries to enter the country by boat without a...

Al-Qaeda fighters have retreated from an oil-rich southern province of war-ravaged Yemen in the face of an assault by an elite US-backed government force, a military official said Monday. Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), seen by the United States as the global network's most...

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Monday said a U.N. commission probing war crimes in Syria should continue its work despite the resignation of prosecutor Carla Del Ponte from the panel. Del Ponte quit in protest at the lack of followup action from the U.N. Security Council to a...

A bomb blast on Monday wounded at least 22 people in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore, a government official said, with no one immediately claiming responsibility. Attacks in the Punjab provincial capital have become less frequent over the past couple of years but Islamist militant...