War-weary Afghans continue to long for peace amid a deadly and resurgent insurgency 17 years since the launch of Operation Enduring Freedom, the longest war by the U.S. claiming hundreds of thousands of lives and costing trillions of dollars. Many observers in Afghanistan see the resent...

Italy will close its airports to unauthorized planes carrying migrants from Germany, Interior Minister Matteo Salvini said Sunday, ratcheting up a dispute between the EU partners over how to share responsibility for asylum seekers. The two countries have been working on a deal under...

The Taliban have destroyed highway bridges southwest of Kabul during a wide-ranging assault on security forces, cutting off road traffic between the capital and three provinces, officials said Sunday. Interior Ministry spokesman Najib Danish said Afghan security forces repelled the...

Stepping gingerly through the pulverised remnants of her Indonesian village, Nonlis Kando spotted a white shoebox imprinted with neon red lips sticking up from the ruins, and burst into tears. The 35-year-old office worker had found her home -- or what was left of it after an earthquake...