Across a river in a remote part of India’s northeast, laborers have cleared dense forest in an area equivalent to about seven soccer fields and are building the first mass detention center for illegal immigrants. The camp in the lush, tea-growing state of Assam is intended for at least...

The Taliban attacked a third provincial capital in Afghanistan in less than a week, killing at least two civilians, an official said Friday as a U.S. envoy was back in Qatar for unexpected talks on a U.S.-Taliban deal he had described as complete just days earlier. Farah provincial...

There were many times throughout his life when 17-year-old Nour could have become just another grim statistic. The numbers were always against him. He was a young boy when the Syrian war began, and when his hometown of Moadamyeh was bombed and besieged by government forces. He could...

Six months after he was snatched from a road in central Syria, Iyad Suleiman was allowed by his kidnappers to make a Skype video call home. His children were startled at how he looked — skinny and exhausted, with a long beard. He told his wife to keep talking with his captors and Syrian...