At least 14 people were killed and 36 others wounded when a gunman attacked a Shia shrine in the Afghan capital Kabul, authorities said Tuesday. Interior Ministry Spokesman Sediq Sediqqi said one of the victims of the attack was a police officer. The attack occurred when worshippers...

"Game of Thrones" actor Liam Cunningham paid a surprise visit on Tuesday to a teenage Syrian refugee now in possession of a German visa and living in Stuttgart, a month after first meeting him in Jordan. Cunningham, who plays Ser Davos Seaworth in the HBO television channel hit medieval...

British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson on Tuesday called for Russia to be investigated for war crimes over its role in Syria and for protests to take place outside Moscow’s embassy. Johnson spoke in parliament for the first time as the U.K.’s foreign minister during an emergency debate...

The leader of Lebanon's Hezbollah movement, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, said on Tuesday the Middle East was in a phase of escalating tension and there appeared to be no prospect of a political solution to the war in Syria. "The regional scene is currently one of tension and escalation, and it...