Dozens of Taliban fighters were killed in fierce overnight fighting between Afghan forces and militants who attacked multiple checkpoints in the insurgent bastion of Kandahar, officials said Sunday. Taliban militants attacked checkpoints in five districts surrounding the city of Kandahar,...

Anwar al-Bunni had only been in Germany a couple of months when he walked into a shop and found himself face to face with the man he believes had interrogated and jailed him nearly a decade earlier. Both men were buying groceries in a Turkish shop near the gates of Marienfelde, the Berlin...

Turkey is planning to withdraw from more military positions in Syria's north-west province of Idlib, citing the need to avoid "potential risks". According to sources who informed the news outlet Middle East Eye, Turkish forces will soon be evacuated from two military positions in the areas...

In a development the United Nations calls "disturbing," Ethiopia Friday said it is returning thousands of refugees who ran from camps in its Tigray region as war swept through, putting them on buses back to the border area with Eritrea, the country the refugees originally fled. The news...