The death toll from two days of heavy flooding in northern and eastern Afghanistan rose to at least 150 Thursday, with scores more injured as rescue crews searched for survivors beneath the mud and rubble of collapsed houses, officials said. Heavy rains, compounded by mudslides, often...

UN-backed talks on a new constitution for Syria were to resume in Geneva Thursday after Swiss health authorities gave the green light despite four delegates testing positive for Covid-19. The discussions, aimed at rewriting the war-torn country's constitution, were put on hold almost as...

The Russian military blamed the US troops Thursday for a collision of Russian and US military vehicles in Syria's northeast. US officials said Wednesday that a Russian vehicle sideswiped a light-armored US military vehicle, injuring four Americans, while two Russian helicopters flew...

As a renegade Libyan general seeks to stave off a pair of civil lawsuits in a US court accusing him of responsibility for mass atrocities, he has chosen a risky legal defense, claiming he is immune from legal action under his alleged status as Libya's head of state.  Khalifa Haftar is...