Afghan security personnel inspect the site of a truck bomb attack in Gardez, capital of Paktia province, Afghanistan, May 14, 2020. /AFP A truck packed with explosives blew up near a court in
The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) on Wednesday observed a minute of silence during a virtual press conference on COVID-19 to remember the nurses and heal
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday condemned the attack on a hospital in Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, which killed and wounded dozens o
Militants stormed a maternity hospital in the western part of Kabul on Tuesday, setting off an hours-long shootout with the police and killing 14 people, including two
An Israeli soldier was killed early Tuesday during a West Bank arrest raid when a rock thrown off a rooftop struck him in the head, the military said, capping a surge i
Twenty-four civilians were killed and 68 others wounded in a suicide bomb explosion at a funeral in Afghanistan's eastern province of Nangarhar on Tuesday, the country's Interior Ministry said. "Terr
Although U.S. COVID-19 restrictions have kept many people at home and dropped the number of mass shootings in the country, gun violence persists.In April 2020, U.S. mass shootings drop
French and Chadian peacekeepers talk at the Minusma peacekeeping base in Kidal, Mali, July 22, 2015. /Reuters Three UN troops were killed and four wounded when their convoy hit a roadside bomb
As many as 22 Syrian soldiers and rebel militants were killed on Sunday during intense battles in the countryside of Hama province in central Syria, a war monitor repo
The Islamic State (IS) carried out an attack in a desert region in eastern Syria on Thursday, killing 11 Syrian soldiers and pro-government fighters, a war monitor rep
The head of Libya’s internationally recognized government Tuesday called for a renewal of U.N.-brokered talks to end divisions in the oil-rich country, amid escalating
Inmates gather on the roof of the National Bolivarian Police prison during a riot in Caracas in 2015. /Reuters At least 46 people died and 60 were injured in a prison riot in the western Venez
France’s Defense Ministry said Saturday that a French soldier has been killed in Mali during operations against “armed terrorist groups.”A military tanker belonging to
Rowing /VCG A 72-year-old British man has claimed a world record after becoming the oldest person to row solo across the Atlantic Ocean.Graham Walters, from Leicester, England, arrived in the
Workers make reusable protective suits at a workshop of BW Techtextile in Beijing, capital of China, April 24, 2020. /Xinhua Editor's note: Andy Mok is a research fellow at Center for China an
A tentative easing around the world of coronavirus lockdowns gathered pace Saturday with the reopening in India of neighborhood stores that many of the country’s 1.3 bi
Security forces backed by fighting planes have killed 17 militants including two commanders and wounded 13 others in Shahrak district of Afghanistan's western Ghor province, said an army statement re
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