U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Monday said a U.N. commission probing war crimes in Syria should continue its work despite the resignation of prosecutor Carla Del Ponte from the panel. Del Ponte quit in protest at the lack of followup action from the U.N. Security Council to a...

A bomb blast on Monday wounded at least 22 people in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore, a government official said, with no one immediately claiming responsibility. Attacks in the Punjab provincial capital have become less frequent over the past couple of years but Islamist militant...

A Pakistani charity that the United States accuses of being a front for anti-India militant group that staged the 2008 Mumbai attacks has entered politics by forming a new party, charity officials said Monday. The new Milli Muslim League party will follow the ideology of Jamaat-ud-Dawa...

An Israeli military court has refused to postpone the imprisonment of a soldier sentenced to 18 months for killing a wounded Palestinian and he will be jailed this week, the army said Monday. Elor Azaria had applied on Sunday for a delay to his prison term. "His request was rejected and...