An Indonesian domestic passenger aircraft carrying 54 people lost contact with air traffic control on Sunday in the remote eastern Papua region, the National Search and Rescue Agency (BASARNAS) said. "Lost contact with plane," BASARNAS chief Bambang Soelystyo told Reuters by phone....

Fatah Army early Sunday has resumed bombing on the last two Shiite villages in the northwestern province of Idlib as a temporary ceasefire between warring parties collapsed on Saturday. The alliance of Islamist groups, including dominant Ahrar al-Sham movement, had launched an attack on...

At least 21 people, including 9 children and 6 women, were killed on Saturday when Syrian air force carried out deadly air strikes on rebel-held towns of Wadi Barada region near Damascus, activists and monitoring groups said. The Syrian Network for Human Rights said 13 civilians, including 4...

At least 40 migrants have died after apparently getting trapped and suffocating in the water-logged hold of a boat in the Mediterranean, the Italian navy said on Saturday. The victims are thought to have suffocated after inhaling fumes from fuel after the boat took on water in the hold, the...