Bangladeshi security forces on Saturday killed 12 members of an Islamist militant group blamed for a deadly attack on a cafe in Dhaka in July, senior officials said. Most of the militants were killed in a three-hour gun battle as security forces raided four hideouts on the outskirts of...

An Afghan air force helicopter crashed in northern Afghanistan on Sunday, killing at least seven people on board, said Afghan Defence Ministry officials who described the crash as an accident. Four crew members and three soldiers were among the those killed in the crash of the Russian-made...

Two officers were killed and a third was wounded Saturday while responding to a domestic disturbance in Palm Springs, California, local media reported. At least one suspect is still sought by police amid an ongoing manhunt after the deadly encounter at approximately 12.30 p.m. (1930GMT),...

Elders in Afghanistan's troubled Helmand province accused the Kabul government and its international backers on Saturday of failing to live up to promises of protection as Taliban militants claim more territory and threaten the provincial capital. Despite months of reorganization, a new...

A review by the Philippines of joint military drills with the United States could see exercises continue or scaled back, a military spokesman said on Saturday, following more rhetoric from the president about scrapping them completely. An assessment would be conducted among the defense top...

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump scrambled to prevent his campaign from falling apart early on Saturday with a hastily prepared video statement expressing regret for making lewd comments about women. Trump declared himself a changed man, but raised the infidelities of former...

Bangladeshi forces Saturday killed eleven suspected Islamist extremists including the new leader of a banned group behind a massacre at a Dhaka cafe this year, a minister said. "Eleven extremists were killed. They are all members of the new JMB (Jamayetul Mujahideen Bangladesh)," Home...

Seven teenagers were feared dead Saturday, a day after they went missing when their boat capsized on a river in Indonesia, officials said. None have been found despite a major rescue operation. The wooden boat was carrying 25 Islamic boarding school male students across the Bengawan Solo...

Hurricane Matthew killed almost 900 people and left tens of thousands homeless in Haiti earlier this week before plowing northward on Saturday over waters just off the U.S. southeast, where it caused flooding and widespread power outages. The number of deaths in Haiti, the poorest country in...

The Syrian opposition has called on the European Union to sanction Russia for what it says are war crimes in Syria. Syrian opposition High Negotiations Committee (HNC) member Bassma Kodmani also urged the EU to consider every option for civilian protection after Russia’s direct involvement...

The FBI hinted Friday that it wants help from Apple to unlock an iPhone that belongs to the man who launched a knife attack at a Minnesota shopping mall last month. Dahir Adan stabbed and wounded 10 people at the mall in St. Cloud. He was shot and killed by an off-duty police officer and...

Border patrol officers in the southern U.S. have been ordered to let in immigrants so that they can vote in the upcoming election, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump claimed Friday. Trump said Art Del Cueto, vice president for the National Border Patrol Council union, told him...

Russia’s foreign minister said his country was interested in a proposal made by UN Syria envoy Staffan de Mistura who asked al-Nusra Front militants to leave the northern Syrian city of Aleppo with their weapons. Sergey Lavrov, speaking to Russia's Channel One on Friday, said Moscow was...

Peshmerga forces will not allow members of the PKK terrorist group to remain in Iraq’s northern Sinjar district west of Daesh-held Mosul, Qasim Darbo, an Ezidi peshmerga leader told Anadolu Agency on Friday. Referring to the group’s continued presence in Sinjar, Darbo asserted: "If PKK...

Hurricane Matthew, carrying winds of 120 miles per hour (195 kph), lashed central Florida on Friday, hugging the Atlantic coast as it moved north and threatened more destruction after killing more than 500 people and leaving thousands homeless in Haiti. Matthew, the first major hurricane...

In a sign of growing frustration with Russia and Syria, Secretary of State John Kerry on Friday called for a war crimes investigation into the allies as they continue an intense air campaign on rebels in Aleppo. He said Syrian forces hit another hospital in Syria's pre-war largest city...

Nearly a month after elections, Croatia’s ruling conservatives and the center-right MOST alliance reached an agreement Friday for a coalition government with rotating leadership in Parliament. "We have decided for the Croatian Parliament to be managed in rotation. In this context, it will be...

Two bombs targeting a train in the restive western Pakistani province of Baluchistan killed at least four people on Friday and wounded 16, officials said. The bombs hit the Jaffer Express which runs between the provincial capital, Quetta, and Rawalpindi, next to the capital, Islamabad, said...

President Barack Obama on Thursday commuted the sentences of 102 prisoners, adding to a tally that already surpassed the previous 11 presidents combined. Like those that preceded it, the latest tranche is comprised mainly of drug offenders. White House Counsel Neil Eggleston wrote in a...

A U.N. human rights watchdog called on Saudi Arabia on Friday to end "severe" discrimination against girls and to repeal laws that allow the stoning, amputation, flogging and execution of children. The Committee on the Rights of the Child condemned the Saudi-led coalition's air strikes in...