Three civilians were killed on Saturday by the explosion of an explosive device in the city of Afrin in northern Syria, state-run news agency reported.   Citing local sources, SANA said a powerful explosion rocked Afrin as a result of an explosive device affixed in a car....

KOH DAMAN, Afghanistan (AP) — For two days the fighting was blistering. Rockets and heavy machine gun fire pounded Imam Sahib, a key district on Afghanistan’s northern border with Tajikistan. When the explosions died down and Syed Akram finally emerged from his home earlier this...

TOKYO (AP) — After months of frustration and delay, Japan has hit the remarkable benchmark of 1 million vaccines a day. But with the Olympics set to start in less than a month, and only a small portion of the country vaccinated, a question lingers: Is it enough? The vaccination pace...

  Four pro-regime militants were killed and six wounded in a landline explosion in the central province of Hama, state-run news agency reported Thursday.   The landmine went off while a military bus was passing near the village of Rasm Ghazali in the eastern countryside of...