The shock announcement of Afghanistan's first woman fixed-wing pilot to seek asylum in the US has touched off a spirited national debate on the country's most vexing issues: insecurity, women's rights and mass exodus of young people. Niloofar Rahmani, a 25-year-old pilot lionised widely as...

Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi will pick a regulator and members of a new media council under a law passed Monday, giving the body the power to fine or suspend publications and broadcasters and give or revoke licences for foreign media. The law, approved by parliament and signed...

At least five Daesh members were captured alive in an operation carried out Monday by the Iraqi army’s 16th division and Nineveh Guards Force, according to an officer in the Iraqi army. Iraqi army’s Brig. Gen. Mahmoud Saad Zubeiri told Anadolu Agency that "a joint fighting force of...

Chile's government set to work on Monday repairing roads and restoring electricity to southern regions affected by a major earthquake that struck on Christmas Day, frightening thousands but resulting in no fatalities or major damage. The quake, a magnitude 7.6 centered off Chiloe Island...