Taliban insurgents attacked a checkpoint in western Afghanistan early Saturday, killing at least three police and wounding four others, officials said. Toryalai Abdyani, the police chief of Farah province, said the attackers killed the three police and escaped with weapons and ammunition...

New Zealand said Saturday the U.N. Security Council resolution condemning Israeli settlements should have come as no surprise to the Jewish State, after Israel retaliated by recalling its ambassador to Wellington. New Zealand co-sponsored the resolution which described the settlements in the...

A South Korean special prosecutor probing a corruption scandal engulfing impeached President Park Geun-hye summoned a friend of hers at the center of the crisis for questioning on Saturday on charges including bribery and embezzlement, an official said. The questioning of Choi Soon-sil, whom...

Two Saudis were injured Friday by a military projectile fired from war-ravaged Yemen into southern Saudi Arabia, according to the kingdom’s civil defense agency.  Agency spokesman Yehia al-Kahtani said a shell struck a house in Jizan city near border with Yemen, injuring a man and his...

South Africans have pledged over 13 million rand (approximately $928,000) to assist with humanitarian efforts in Syria, a spokesman for a local NGO behind the initiative has told Anadolu Agency.  Yusuf Abramjee, spokesman for the NGO OperationSA, said telephone pledge lines were made by...

After the United States abstained from voting, the U.N. Security Council Friday passed a resolution demanding Israel stop building settlements on occupied Palestinian territory, a reversal of U.S. practice to protect Israel from United Nations action. The resolution was put forward at the...

The weapons used Friday in the hijack of a jet from Libya to Malta were replicas according to the result of an initial forensic examination, Maltese Prime Minister Joseph Muscat said on his Twitter feed. The hijackers, armed with a grenade and pistols, forced the airliner to land in Malta...

Cristiano Ronaldo expressed his anguish over the plight of children in war-shattered Syria and made a donation to help fund emergency supplies in Aleppo. The Real Madrid and Portugal star's "generous donation" will fund food, clothing and medical care for families in Aleppo and across Syria,...

The U.N. Security Council Friday rejected a U.S.-drafted resolution on imposing an arms embargo and sanctions on South Sudan, now in its fourth year of war. The measure garnered only seven votes in favor in the 15-member council, while eight countries including Russia, China and Japan...

The hijackers of a Libyan plane that landed in Malta earlier on Friday have left the aircraft and surrendered after releasing all the passengers and crew, Maltese Prime Minister Joseph Muscat said. "Hijackers surrendered, searched and taken in custody," Muscat tweeted....

Russia has sent a battalion of military police to keep order in Aleppo, Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said Friday, after the Syrian regime took full control of the ravaged city. "We sent in a battalion of military police yesterday evening to maintain order in the liberated...

Several passengers descended steps from a hijacked plane at Malta International Airport Friday, and Malta's Prime Minister Joseph Muscat tweeted that women and children were being freed. The aircraft had been on an internal flight in Libya when it was diverted to Malta, 500 km (300 miles)...

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said Friday that Turkey's operation to capture the northern Syrian town of al-Bab was almost complete. Speaking at the opening ceremony of a natural gas terminal in the coastal town of Izmir, Erdogan said the Free Syrian Army, with the backing of Turkish...

An airliner on an internal flight in Libya was hijacked and diverted to Malta where it landed on Friday, Maltese media reported. Two hijackers had threatened to blow up the Airbus A320, which had 118 people aboard, outlets including the Times of Malta said. The aircraft had been flying from...

(Toronto Life)- When Jim Estill decided to sponsor 50 Syrian refugee families, he didn’t tell anyone about it at first—not his accountant, not his friends, not even his wife. It was the summer of 2015, and the death toll in Syria had reached a quarter of a million people, while another four...

The Tunisian suspected of killing 12 people at a Berlin Christmas market was filmed by police in the city shortly after the attack and investigators believe he is still hiding in the German capital, media reported on Friday. The 24-year-old suspect, Anis Amri, was caught on camera by police...

Turkish authorities detained 31 people on Friday suspected of links to ISIS, broadcaster NTV said, as clashes between Turkish soldiers and the militant group intensified in northern Syria. Turkey issued arrest warrants for 41 people in Istanbul for "being members of an armed terrorist...

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump called the attacks this week in Berlin and Ankara "terrible" on Wednesday and said he has been proven to be correct about his plans to impose curbs on Muslims immigrating to the United States. "What’s going on is terrible, terrible," Trump told reporters,...

The U.S. State Department said Wednesday it could not confirm reports that all rebel fighters had left the besieged Syrian city of Aleppo, adding that the absence of U.N. observers to monitor the situation made it difficult to assess the situation. "I don't think we can say definitively one...

A total of 14 Turkish soldiers were killed and more than 33 were wounded in clashes with ISIS militants near the northern Syrian town of al-Bab Wednesday, while 138 militants were killed in the fighting, Turkey's military said. Turkish-backed Syrian rebels have been besieging the...