Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif held talks in Tehran with a Taliban delegation led by Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, one of the group’s founders, the official IRNA news agency reported on Wednesday. Zarif expressed Iran’s willingness to support dialogue between all Afghan...

An explosion at a chemical plant in Texas early Wednesday sent a large fireball into the sky, media reports said, triggering a mandatory evacuation. "Please be aware that there is a mandatory evacuation for everyone within a 1/2 mile of the TPC plant in Port Neches," local fire officials...

Israel carried out airstrikes late Tuesday in the southern Gaza Strip in response to rocket fire. Israeli warplanes struck a military facility in the city of Khan Younis belonging to the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Palestinian resistance group Hamas. No casualties...

UN human rights experts and Amnesty warned Tuesday that Lebanese authorities were failing to protect protesters, following attacks on demonstrators by government supporters. The authorities have "failed to adequately protect protesters from violent attacks by others", said a statement...