A Catholic mass was held Sunday for Vietnamese feared among 39 people found dead in a truck in Britain, as families desperately awaited news about missing relatives who have not been heard from in days. The 31 men and eight women were initially believed to be Chinese, but several Vietnamese...

Syria's Kurdish forces said they expected revenge attacks by Daesh (ISIS) following the U.S. announcement Sunday that the extremist organisation's leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi had been killed. "Sleeper cells will seek revenge for Baghdadi's death," Mazloum Abdi, the top commander of the...

Saudi Arabia took command of anti-rebel troops in Yemen's Aden, Saudi state media said Sunday, after the government and southern separatist forces struck a power-sharing deal following August clashes in the city. "Coalition forces have been repositioned in Aden to become under the kingdom's...

Zalmay Khalilzad, the US envoy who led talks with the Taliban until negotiations collapsed last month, was in Kabul on Sunday meeting with top Afghan officials including President Ashraf Ghani. His visit comes amid speculation the US is attempting to restart the effort to end America's...