KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Reports of targeted killings in areas overrun by the Taliban mounted Friday, fueling fears that they will return Afghanistan to the repressive rule they imposed when they were last in power, even as they urged imams to push a message of unity at Friday's prayers....

MOSCOW (AP) — Russia's top diplomat assured his Libyan counterpart Thursday that Moscow supports the withdrawal of all foreign fighters from the North African country and is prepared to help work out the details with other countries. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said after the...

By Firas Kontar Thanaa al Hussein, a Palestinian survivor of the Syrian regime's death camps. She has testified to the rape and torture she endured for six months, and if she speaks openly, it is for all the other inmates in Assad's prisons. His exceptional courage deserves our...

After a devastating fuel tanker explosion in the northern village of Tleil killed 33 people and left nearly 80 wounded, Lebanese hospitals across the country opened their doors to patients. The northern village and the rest of Akkar province is one of the country’s poorest, and...