Afghan militiamen join Afghan defense and security forces during a gathering in Kabul, Afghanistan, June 23, 2021. /CFP Afghan Taliban militants now control about half of the war-torn country'
At least 35 people were killed and dozens wounded in a bomb explosion in a marketplace in eastern Baghdad on Monday, local media reported citing authorities.The Islamic State group claimed responsibi
00:42 The Taliban's supreme leader Hibatullah Akhundzada on Sunday said the group "strenuously favors" a political settlement to the conflict in Afghanistan.The announcement comes as re
The death toll in Iraq’s coronavirus hospital fire has risen to 92 after some wounded people died from severe burns, state news agency INA and health officials said on Tuesday.More
U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks on the administration's continued drawdown efforts in Afghanistan in a speech from the East Room at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., July 8, 20
At least 20 people were wounded on Tuesday after a powerful explosion ripped through a busy road in Kandahar City, capital of Afghanistan's southern Kandahar province, a provincial official confirmed
At least four people wounded in Chicago when an unknown assailant drove by and opened fire on them Saturday night, local media reported.As of early Sunday morning, no suspects had been arrested.
Bagram Air Base, after all U.S. and NATO troops left, some 70 km north of Kabul, July 2, 2021. /CFP Editor's note:Bobby Naderi is a London-based journalist, guest contributor in print, radio a
Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi arrived in Baghdad on Sunday, marking the first visit by an Egyptian head of state to Iraq since Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait in
One person died and six were wounded in a shooting in Oakland, a city in the U.S. state of California, on Saturday evening, local media reported on Sunday.One 22-year-old man from San Francisco died
A clash between rival gangs at a prison in eastern Honduras left five inmates dead and 15 others injured on Thursday, authorities said.The incident took place at the La Tolva prison in Moroceli, a ci
Multiple people were wounded in a shooting Tuesday morning on Chicago's South Side, local media reported citing police.Shots were fired after an argument at a gathering inside a residence in the Engl
Syrian civil defense officers sift through rubble at Al Shifa hospital following the shelling of Afrin, Syria, June 12, 2021. /AFP At least 13 people were killed and several others were wounde
Fourteen people were wounded after two men opened fire at each other in a busy entertainment district in downtown Austin, the U.S. state of Texas, early on Saturday, police said, adding that one of t
At least seven people were killed after blasts hit two buses in the western part of Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan on Saturday, according to local police.Basir Mujahid, Kabul's police spokesman, a
At least one person was killed and nine others were wounded in a shooting in Chicago early Saturday, reported CNN, citing police.People were standing on a sidewalk in the city's South Side when two m
Two Libyan security officers were killed and four others wounded in a suicide bombing attack against a security checkpoint in the southern Libyan city of Sabha on Sunday.The attack took place at arou