Government airstrikes in the north of Afghanistan killed 24 civilians, including children, and wounded six others, witnesses told The Associated Press Sunday. The two witnesses contacted by the AP said that most of those killed in Saturday's airstrikes, which struck the village of Sayed...

Tens of thousands of opposition supporters marched in the Belarusian capital of Minsk Sunday despite authorities deploying a heavy police presence. The protest came a day after officers detained hundreds of demonstrators at a women's march in the capital. The opposition movement has...

As the coronavirus pandemic began bearing down on the United States in March, President Donald Trump set out his expectations. If the US could keep the death toll between 100,000 to 200,000 people, Trump said, it would indicate that his administration had "done a very good job." In the...

Egypt's antiquities ministry announced Sunday the discovery of 14 coffins in the Saqqara area that had lain buried for two and a half thousand years. The tombs were found two days ago during an archaeological dig, and follow 13 wooden sarcophagus discovered in the same burial spot last...