KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Taliban fighters entered the outskirts of the Afghan capital on Sunday while panicked workers fled government offices and helicopters landed at the U.S. Embassy as the militants' further tightened their grip on the country. Three Afghan officials told The...

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The Taliban seized a province just south of Afghanistan's capital and launched a multi-pronged assault early Saturday on a major city in the north defended by powerful former warlords, Afghan officials said. The insurgents have captured much of northern, western...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Peering out into the darkened audience of a Dubai bar, comedian Imah Dumagay leaned into the microphone and addressed the mistaken perception that many people have across the Middle East when they see a Filipina at a nightclub. “I am from the...

Libyan authorities on Sunday exhumed 10 bodies from a mass grave in Tarhuna city, south of the capital Tripoli. The mass grave was discovered on Saturday in a large agricultural area known as Mashrou' Alrabet in the city, Lutfi Tawfiq, director of the General Authority for Research and...