A landmine explosion killed seven people, including a child, in Homs province of central Syria on Saturday, a war monitor reported. It detonated as a vehicle with the seven on board passed through a desert road outside the historic city of Palmyra, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for...

 Iraq's Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi survived an assassination attempt with armed drones that targeted his residence early Sunday and officials said he was unharmed. The attack was a major escalation amid tensions sparked by the refusal of Iran-backed militias to accept last month's...

A knife attack on a high-speed train in Germany left three people severely wounded, the Bavarian Red Cross said Saturday. Police said a man has been arrested in connection with the morning attack. The train, one of Germany’s high-speed ICE trains, was traveling between the Bavarian cities...

Portsmouth man Isaac Idris, who used to be known as Mustakim Jaman, was yesterday jailed for eight months after admitting failing to tell police about his finances, a phone number and email addresses. The 29-year-old, of Hudson Road, Somers Town, was supposed to report such information to...