FIFA President Gianni Infantino has defended the use of video replays despite a shaky debut for the new system at the Club World Cup. The replay system allows referees to halt games to review footage of "game-changing decisions", but its introduction has had a mixed reaction from players and...

Gunmen shot dead five female airport workers and their driver in southern Afghanistan Saturday, underlining the threat to employed women in the country. The women were in a van driving to the airport in the southern Kandahar province when at least three gunmen on motorcycles opened fire at...

Several people were wounded on Saturday in a car bombing close to a public bus in the central Turkish city of Kayseri, television reports said. Initial television pictures showed that the bus had been reduced to a smouldering wreck by the impact of the blast. The Dogan news agency said...

The fall of Aleppo is a human catastrophe. It’s also a demonstration of the perils of choosing the middle course in a military conflict. Sometimes it’s possible to talk and fight at the same time. But in Syria, the U.S. decision to pursue a dual-track, halfway approach made the mayhem worse....