Taliban fighters in the southern Afghan province of Helmand attacked a checkpoint with silenced weapons and hand grenades early Tuesday killing 12 policemen and stealing weapons and ammunition, officials said. But a provincial official said that it could be an insider attack as one of the...

Russia is pledging to veto a Western-backed U.N. resolution that would impose sanctions on 21 Syrian individuals, organizations and companies allegedly involved in chemical weapons attacks in the war-ravaged country. The Security Council has scheduled a vote Tuesday on the resolution...

Australian counterterrorism police arrested an unidentified man after a raid on a countryside property on Tuesday and accused him of seeking to help the Islamic State group by developing missile technology, the first arrest of its kind in Australia. Dozens of police, including a dog squad...

South Korea's special prosecutor's office said on Tuesday it will charge Samsung Group scion Jay Y. Lee and four other executives with bribery, embezzlement and other offences on its last day of its investigation into a political scandal that has rocked the country. Lee was arrested on Feb....