Several shops opened and buses plied the streets Monday as life limped back to the Sudanese capital on the second day of a nationwide civil disobedience campaign called to pressure the ruling military into handing over power. The timid return to normalcy came as the ruling military council...

Syria's Kurds have handed over 14 orphans born to jihadist families to government delegations from France and the Netherlands, in the latest repatriations of foreigners living in crowded camps. Abdelkarim Omar, the top Kurdish foreign affairs official, said Monday that 12 French and two...

The Islamic State group has lost its caliphate in Syria and Iraq, but in the forbidding mountains of northeastern Afghanistan the group is expanding its footprint, recruiting new fighters and plotting attacks on the United States and other Western countries, according to U.S. and Afghan...

Chinese media on Monday blamed foreign interference over the huge protest that brought central Hong Kong to a standstill at the weekend, accusing opponents of the city's pro-Beijing government of "collusion with the West". Organisers say more than a million people marched through the...