Pressure on South Korea's scandal-hit president to resign escalated sharply Saturday, with organisers claiming a million-strong turnout at one of the largest -- and loudest -- anti-government protests the country has ever witnessed. Chanting "Step down Park Geun-Hye!" enormous crowds,...

A reporter working for Iran's state television IRIB was killed Saturday in a mortar attack in the Syrian battlefront city of Aleppo, the broadcaster said. Mohsen Khazaei died in the village of Minyan outside the northern city, one of two areas which Syrian government forces had recaptured...

Four Americans were killed Saturday in a huge explosion inside the largest US military base in Afghanistan, Secretary of Defense Ash Carter said. The Americans -- two servicemembers and two contractors -- were killed at Bagram Airfield by "an apparent suicide bomber," Carter said in a...

Hundreds of Boko Haram fighters and their families have surrendered in Chad in the past month, security and U.N. sources said, in a sign the military campaign against them is making headway. Boko Haram, which has killed and kidnapped thousands of people, had seized an area approximately the...