Civil Unrest

ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Kurdish militants launched a mortar attack on a Turkish military base in northern Iraq on Thursday, wounding...

KABUL (Reuters) -The Taliban claimed control over two of Afghanistan's biggest cities on Thursday, according to media reports, as the...

By Sarah Marsh HAVANA (Reuters) - Hundreds of people, including dozens of dissident artists and opposition activists, remain detained in...

KINSHASA (Reuters) - A mob attacked Indian businesses and vehicles in Democratic Republic of Congo's capital on Thursday, the police...

KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudan will not decide before next week at the earliest whether to hand over former President Omar...

By Gul Yousafzai QUETTA, Pakistan (Reuters) - Pakistani forces clashed on Thursday with hundreds of Afghans stranded on Pakistan's side...

By Guillermo Martinez and Sarah Marsh MADRID/HAVANA (Reuters) - Wheeling two trolleys piled high with medical supplies, Marilys Colarte waits...

BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany urged its citizens on Thursday to leave Afghanistan on scheduled flights as soon as they can...

MOGADISHU (Reuters) -The African Union's peacekeeping mission in Somalia said it was investigating reports that civilians were killed during a...

ANKARA (Reuters) - A crowd of Turks attacked shops and homes belonging to Syrians in the Turkish capital Ankara overnight...

(Reuters) - The Taliban are a hardline Islamist movement in Afghanistan that has been fighting an insurgency against the Western-backed...

ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkey believes it would be beneficial for Kabul airport to remain open and the issue will "take...

BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany will not provide any financial support to Afghanistan if the Taliban takes over power in the...

PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - Haiti's elections have been postponed to Nov. 7, according to local media on Wednesday, following the killing...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. State Department on Wednesday said it is working to forge an international consensus behind the...

WASHINGTON/KABUL (Reuters) -Taliban fighters could isolate Afghanistan's capital in 30 days and possibly take it over within 90, a U.S....

By Rami Ayyub TEL AVIV (Reuters) - Israel is set to approve construction of new homes for Jewish settlers in...

(Corrects headline to say Turkey keen to run the airport rather than running) By Orhan Coskun ANKARA (Reuters) -Turkey is...

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) -Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan accused the United States of seeing his country as useful only in the...

(Reuters) - Taliban insurgents control an estimated 65% of Afghan territory, after making rapid advances against local forces who are...