President Joe Biden said for the first time Wednesday he would halt some shipments of American weapons to Israel – which he acknowledged have been used to kill civilians in Gaza – if Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu orders a major invasion of the (...)
The annual Red Square military parade felt different this time round.
And not just because of the spring snowstorm.
There were 9,000 people marching across the square. Sounds a lot. But in previous years – before Russia's invasion of Ukraine – the (...)
Six years ago, a Muslim boy returned red-faced from a well-known school in the northern Indian city of Agra.
"My classmates called me a Pakistani terrorist," the nine-year-old told his mother.
Reema Ahmad, an author and counselor, remembers the day (...)
New video evidence uncovered by CNN significantly undermines two Pentagon investigations, the latest of which was released last week, into an ISIS-K suicide attack outside Kabul airport, during the American troop withdrawal from Afghanistan in (...)
Dangerous levels of acute hunger affected a staggering 281.6 million people last year – the fifth year in a row that food insecurity has worsened – heightening growing fears of famine and "widespread death" from Gaza to Sudan and beyond, UN agencies (...)
The first flights deporting asylum seekers to Rwanda will take off in 10 to 12 weeks Rishi Sunak has announced — missing his original spring target.
The government has already prepared an airfield and secured charter plane slots to ensure flights (...)
UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak insists his policy to process asylum seekers in Rwanda will become law, even if it means MPs sitting late into the night to pass it.
There has been a prolonged stand-off over the bill between the two Houses of (...)
Reuters photographer Mohammed Salem has won this year's prestigious World Press Photo of the Year award with a depiction of loss in Gaza.
The heartrending photo depicts a Palestinian woman cradling the body of her young niece.
The photograph, taken (...)
Unseasonal rainfall has lashed Pakistan and Afghanistan over the past few days, killing more than 100 people across the neighboring countries, authorities said.
In Afghanistan, heavy rain and floods in 23 provinces killed 66 people and wounded 36 (...)
British fighter jets shot down "a number of drones" fired at Israel from Iran, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said.
The UK was one of several countries, including the US, which helped counter Iran's unprecedented attack — its first ever direct strike on (...)
US President Joe Biden has said that he is considering a request from Australia to drop the prosecution of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.
The country's parliament recently passed a measure — backed by PM Anthony Albanese — calling for the return (...)
The veterans' minister has been ordered to hand over the names of those who told him about alleged war crimes and a cover-up by British special forces in Afghanistan.
Johnny Mercer has until April 5 to provide a witness statement with the names to (...)
Russia has charged four men it says attacked a Moscow concert hall and killed at least 137 people.
Three were marched bent double into a Moscow court while the fourth was in a wheelchair. All were charged with committing an act of terrorism.
The (...)
RIYADH — The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has voiced Saudi Arabia's strong condemnation and denunciation of the recent terrorist attack in Kandahar, Afghanistan, which led to numerous deaths and injuries.
The ministry underscored the Kingdom's firm (...)
At least 21 people have been killed in a suicide bombing in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar, a doctor at the regional hospital has told the BBC.
The Taliban government has put the death toll at three. Police said a number of others were (...)
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has said all of Gaza's two million people are experiencing "severe levels of acute food insecurity".
This was first time an entire population had been so classified, he said when questioned by the BBC about (...)
Police in India have arrested two people after some international students were assaulted in a university hostel while offering Ramadan prayers.
Officials say a heated argument about the location of the prayers led to the physical attack in Gujarat (...)
India's government has announced plans to enact a controversial citizenship law that has been criticized for being anti-Muslim.
The Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) will allow non-Muslim religious minorities from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan (...)
An Afghan judge who has been forced to go into hiding from the Taliban was wrongly refused relocation to the UK, the High Court has ruled.
The anonymous claimant prosecuted Taliban and Islamic State group members, and has since avoided an (...)
Just over two years after they strongarmed Prime Minister Narendra Modi into an exceptional U-turn, India's protesting farmers are back on the streets – and this time the stakes are higher.
For about two weeks now, thousands of angry farmers have (...)
DONETSK, eastern Ukraine — Maj Oleh Kravchenko has the sort of chuckle that's hard to resist — deep and treacly and mischievous.
"I'm still alive," he said, tilting his head to one side in his wheelchair, like a spectator marvelling at someone (...)
Dozens of archeological sites in Afghanistan have been bulldozed to allow systematic looting, according to researchers at the University of Chicago.
They say their analysis of satellite photos provides the first definitive photographic evidence that (...)
UK Special Forces blocked Afghan troops they had fought alongside from relocating to the UK after the Taliban seized power, BBC Panorama can reveal.
Leaked documents show special forces rejected applications despite some containing compelling (...)
Tens of millions of Pakistanis are heading to the polls to vote in a new government amid soaring inflation, rising violence and claims of rigging.
The election comes almost two years since the previous prime minister, cricketer-turned-politician (...)
Violence marred several of Pakistan's polling stations on Thursday, as millions voted in an election in which old dynasties vied for power while the country's widely popular former leader languishes behind bars.
Polling stations across the country (...)