Militants attacked an Afghan army unit guarding a military academy in the capital of Kabul on Monday, killing at least five soldiers and wounding 10, officials said. Hours later, ISIS claimed responsibility for the assault. The attack was the latest in a wave of relentless...

The Grammys – often derided as a tone-deaf music industry lovefest – will take on new relevance this year, as hip-hop artists for the first time are leading the pack. But after a tumultuous 2017 marked by racial strife and a nationwide reckoning about sexual harassment, the Grammys also...

Iranian media say a naval destroyer has sunk in the Caspian Sea after crashing into a breakwater earlier this month. Mizan Online showed footage Sunday of the Damavand, which crashed on Jan. 10 during a storm, killing two crew members. The 100-meter long destroyer, which...

At least seven people watching a football match have been shot dead in Mexico, sources said Saturday, adding to the country's murder toll which last year hit a two-decade high. The latest killings - after more than 25,000 last year - happened in Monterrey, an industrial hub in the...

At least 14 people were killed in an early Saturday shootout at a nightclub in Fortaleza, in northeastern Brazil, officials said. "We can confirm 14 deaths," Andre Costa, security secretary for the state of Ceara - of which Fortaleza is the capital - told a press conference....

A powerful suicide car bombing at the entrance of a government compound in the Afghan capital Kabul on Saturday killed at least 40 people and injured some 140 more, according to officials. At around 12.50 p.m. local time (0820GMT), an ambulance packed with explosives was detonated...

 North Korea on Saturday condemned the latest U.S. sanctions announced this week aimed at curbing the isolated nation’s development nuclear weapons. The U.S. sanctions are “a manifestation of heinous intention to throw a wet blanket over the inter-Korean exchange and...

The United States condemned Russia's agreement with leaders of Georgia's breakaway South Ossetia region regarding a joint military force Friday, saying the agreement is not a valid treaty. "The United States’ position on Abkhazia and South Ossetia is unwavering: The United States fully...

Daesh (ISIS) planned a Paris-style attack on crowded areas in Barcelona weeks before its November 2015 rampage in the French capital, according to a report published in a U.S. magazine. An Daesh network had planned to attack crowded public places in Spain's second city in...

The White House has unveiled a proposal that provides a pathway to citizenship for 1.8 million young immigrants living in the country illegally, in exchange for new restrictions on legal immigration and $25 billion in border security. The plan, announced Thursday, was applauded by...

Pakistan's claim that the U.S. hit an Afghan refugee camp in a drone strike is "false", a U.S. spokesman said Thursday, as tensions between the uneasy allies ratchet higher over Islamabad's alleged support for militants. The drone strike, which took place well inside Pakistani...

Britain's financial "old boys" club was rocked by its own sexual harassment scandal Wednesday after a Financial Times investigation found that female hostesses were groped at a men-only charity gala attended by hundreds of senior executives. Last week's event at London's Dorchester...

Scientists in China have created the first monkeys cloned by the same process that produced Dolly the sheep more than 20 years ago, a breakthrough that could boost medical research into human diseases. The two long-tailed macaques (Macaca fascicularis) named Hua Hua and Zhong Zhong...

Workers on the Myanmar side of the border with Bangladesh laid bricks, dug ditches and drilled holes in building frames in preparation Wednesday for the possible repatriation of some of the Rohingya Muslims who have poured into Bangladesh in what's become the world's worst refugee crisis....

United Nations peacekeepers are returning to the only U.N. base in South Sudan "clearly" in an area under opposition control as residents hope for protection from what they call growing attacks by government troops. It will be the first U.N. peacekeeper presence in Akobo since 2013,...

Athens said Monday it will hold talks with Skopje this week amid a renewed UN-backed push to solve a name row that has poisoned relations between the neighbours and sparked protests in Greece. Athens argues that the name Macedonia suggests that Skopje has territorial claims to Greece's...

At least 22 people are now known to have died when Taliban militants slaughtered guests at a luxury Kabul hotel, Afghan officials said Monday, as fears grew that the attackers may have had inside help. Authorities warned they were still investigating how militants breached security,...

A motorcycle bomb killed three civilians and wounded two dozen others on Monday at a bustling morning market in Thailand's insurgency-hit south, the first such attack by suspected militants on a 'soft target' in the Muslim-majority region for months. A rebellion against Thai rule in the...

The Screen Actors Guild Awards is tipping the scales for some Oscar hopefuls with a best actor win for Gary Oldman for his transformation into Winston Churchill for "Darkest Hour" and supporting actor wins for "I, Tonya's" Allison Janney and Sam Rockwell for his role in "Three Billboards...

Gunmen have killed at least five people and wounded eight others in an ongoing attack on Kabul's Intercontinental Hotel, officials said Sunday, as panicked guests were seen climbing over balconies to escape. More than eleven hours after the assault began Afghan security forces were...