NATO strike said to kill Afghan troops KABUL—Afghan officials said yesterday that a NATO airstrike inadvertently killed several Afghan soldiers and...

BUCHAREST, Romania—Even his best friend betrayed him. Stelian Tanase found out when he asked to see the thick file that Romania’s communist-era...

KABUL—NATO is reporting the deaths of two more American service members in Afghanistan. A NATO statement says the two Americans were killed yesterday...

DHARMSALA, India—A crowded bus plunged down a steep mountain gorge in northern India today, killing 32 people, a local official said. At least 30...

Spain’s deputy defense minister has ruled out freeing two detained Somali pirates as demanded by fellow hijackers who are holding a Spanish trawler...

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras—Ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya said today that a U.S.-brokered pact failed to end a four-month political crisis after...

MANAGUA, Nicaragua—Newly born Hurricane Ida ripped into Nicaragua’s Atlantic coast today after forcing more than 2,000 people to flee their...

KABUL—The United Nations said today it is temporarily relocating more than half its international staff in Afghanistan following last week’s...

HARARE, Zimbabwe—Zimbabwe’s transport ministry says one of the national airline’s planes collided with five wild pigs on the runway in...

NEW DELHI—The Indian government refused today to allow foreign journalists to cover the Dalai Lama’s visit to a northeastern state at the heart...

KABUL—The challenger in Afghanistan’s recent election called President Hamid Karzai’s victory illegal and his government a failure, saying...

An Italian judge on Wednesday convicted 23 Americans of the 2003 kidnapping of an Egyptian cleric on a Milan street, in a landmark case involving the CIA’s...

Iranian security forces beat anti-government protesters with batons Wednesday on the sidelines of state-sanctioned rallies to mark the 30th anniversary...

Pakistani soldiers battled Taliban fighters Wednesday in the streets of a key militant stronghold, officials said, as government forces pressed ahead with...

President Barack Obama noted Wednesday’s 30th anniversary of the takeover of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, while insisting he wants the U.S. and Iran...

The death toll from Tropical Storm Mirinae rose to 91 in Vietnam on Wednesday as authorities stepped up rescue and relief operations in the country’s...

TEHRAN, Iran—An earthquake struck a key port city in southern Iran early today, injuring at least 700 people and cutting power and telephone lines,...

The Academie Francaise says that Claude Levi-Strauss, an influential French intellectual who was widely considered the father of modern anthropology, has...

China said it expressed grave concern to India about a visit by the Dalai Lama to a state in the country’s northeast at the heart of a long-running...

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Tuesday urged Arabs and Israelis to set aside their historical differences, avoid inflammatory rhetoric...

KABUL—Afghanistan’s president says he wants people from “all parts of the country” in his government. President Hamid Karzai told...

KABUL—Hamid Karzai was declared the winner by default yesterday in Afghanistan’s fraud-marred presidential election, increasing the pressure...

A suicide bomber killed 30 people outside a bank near Pakistan’s capital Monday, as the U.N. said spreading violence has forced it to start pulling...

Afghanistan’s election commission has canceled Saturday’s presidential runoff and proclaimed President Hamid Karzai victor of the war-ravaged...

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton prepared Monday to consult with Arab foreign ministers on Obama administration efforts to get Israel and...

The Dutch are marking the fifth anniversary of the murder of filmmaker Theo van Gogh by a Muslim fanatic, a brutal killing that continues to shape politics...

Two yeoman warders at the Tower of London have been suspended for allegedly bullying a female colleague — the first woman appointed to the post at...

The chief officer on Afghanistan’s election commission says Saturday’s presidential runoff has been canceled.

The European Union’s anti-piracy force says a Norwegian warship has clashed with suspected Somali pirates.

Tropical Storm Mirinae slammed into Vietnam’s central coast Monday, unleashing heavy rains and winds and forcing more than 80,000 people to evacuate...