(The Guardian )- American airstrikes in Afghanistan’s Helmand province may have killed at least 18 civilians, mostly women and children, according to the UN and local sources. The airstrikes took place late on Thursday in Sangin district, which has been highly contested for most of the...

Thousands of people in Russia's second-largest city held competing demonstrations Sunday for and against the return of the renowned St. Isaac's Cathedral to the Russian Orthodox Church. The cathedral, one of St. Petersburg's top tourist destinations, was seized by the state after the 1917...

The Lebanese Hezbollah movement strongly supports the Syria ceasefire agreed upon in Kazakhstan and any truce that could lead to a political solution, its leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said on Sunday. Russia and Turkey brokered a shaky ceasefire in December between rebel groups and the...

Tension between Iraq's Shiite leaders mounted Sunday as the toll from protests in central Baghdad on Saturday increased to six killed, five demonstrators loyal to the fiery cleric Moqtada al-Sadr and one policeman. At least 174 other protesters were injured in clashes that pitted police and...