The decision to carry out a deadly air strike that hit a hospital in the Afghan provincial capital of Kunduz was made within the U.S. chain of command, the American commander of international forces in Afghanistan told lawmakers on Tuesday. On Saturday, an Afghan hospital run by the...
The Taliban claimed Friday to have shot down a U.S. military transport plane in eastern Afghanistan in a crash that killed 11 people, as the battle for Kunduz raged after the emboldened militants briefly seized the city. The Taliban's stunning success in Kunduz, their biggest tactical...
Some 500 migrants were rescued in seven operations launched over the weekend in the Mediterranean, the Italian coastguard said. A spokesman told AFP Sunday that four of the rescue operations had already wound up but the others were ongoing. "Saturday was quiet on the whole but now there...
(By Faris al-Rifai; Translation by Yusra Ahmed Syrian people trying to cross the sea to Europe have started taking cautions to protect them during their deadly trip in sea to from Turkey to Europe. In Aksaray area in Istanbul, Zaman al-Wasl met Mustafa, a young man from...
