An explosion rocked a mosque on an Afghan army base during Friday prayers, killing at least nine people, officials said, in the latest violence to hit the war-torn country. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the blast, which follows a wave of deadly attacks across...

An international rights group says Libyan authorities have forcibly removed dozens of migrants who had barricaded themselves in a container ship in the port city of Misrata for the past 10 days after being picked up at sea. The migrants had refused to disembark, saying Libya is too...

Three people, including a police officer, were killed Monday in a shooting at a hospital in Chicago, said police. The gunman – identified as 32-year-old Juan Lopez, the former fiancée of one of the victims -- was among the dead in the attack at Mercy Hospital. Earlier,...

Iraqi officials said five people were killed in a car bomb blast in the city of Tikrit Sunday, the latest security breach to rattle the country in recent weeks. Sixteen others were wounded in the blast that set fires on both sides of a commercial street in the heart of the city, according to...