A girl and a policeman died in an attack in northern Nigeria Monday which the army blamed on the Islamist insurgent group Boko Haram. The attack at the home of a Muslim cleric in Darazo,

Gunmen opened fire Monday on a taxi in Pakistan's southwestern city of Quetta, gripped by a wave of sectarian bloodshed, killing two people from the minority Shiite community, police said. The attack came

The United Nations said Thursday it is ready to send troops into battle against rebels in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo after demonstrators accused peacekeepers of being too weak. U.N. troops in DR Congo have

Gunmen ambushed a vehicle carrying government paramilitary forces in a restive Pakistani tribal region near the Afghan border on Thursday, killing two soldiers, officials said. The attack took place in Kamar village, around 40 kilometers

The Afghan government is ready to sit down with the Taliban in Doha or anywhere in the world for the sake of peace and stability in Afghanistan, a senior Afghan envoy said yesterday. In an

Pope Francis on Thursday bolstered criminal legislation against child abuse in the Vatican in an overhaul of laws that apply to the clergy and lay people who work in the tiny city state. The Vatican

Volunteers arrive on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, DC yesterday. President Barack Obama and the family will host members of the US armed services and their families to celebrate the

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Monday urged progress on a code of conduct to govern the hotly disputed South China Sea, after ally the Philippines warned of a Chinese military build-up in

President Vladimir Putin confirmed yesterday a former US spy agency contractor sought by the US was in the transit area of a Moscow airport but ruled out handing him over to Washington, dismissing US

Tourists look at the rising ‘super moon’ from the elevated skywalk of the Supertrees Grove at the Gardens by the Bay in Singapore, yesterday. The largest full moon of the year, called the