The Taliban claimed responsibility and said the American commander was the intended target. PESHAWAR, Pakistan — The top U.S. and NATO commander in Afghanistan, Gen. Scott Miller, escaped injury during a Taliban-claimed gun attack Thursday, but three Americans were wounded. The police chief of the southern province of Kandahar, Gen. Abdul Raziq, was killed, reportedly […]

Israeli military strikes more than 20 targets in Gaza in response. TEL AVIV — A long-range rocket fired from the Gaza Strip early Wednesday landed in the largest city in southern Israel, destroying part of a house. It was the first rocket to hit Beersheba, a city of 200,000, since 2014. Another rocket fired from […]

A Floridian who survived Hurricane Irma said those in the Panhandle are “very shell-shocked and they’re just trying to pick up the pieces.” Florida Keys resident Mike Umberg struggled through two chapters of recovery after Hurricane Irma plowed through the chain of coral islands in September 2017 as a fearsome Category 4 storm. First came the fight […]

The fiancée of a prominent Saudi Arabian journalist who went missing inside the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul a week ago requested that President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump directly intervene in the worrying case to “help shed light” on Jamal Khashoggi’s disappearance. In a Washington Post opinion piece published late Tuesday, Hatice Cengiz “implored” the Trumps to get involved. […]

“Hurricane Michael is forecast to be the most destructive storm to hit the Florida Panhandle in decades,” Florida Gov. Rick Scott warned on Tuesday. Hurricane Michael strengthened to a Category 2 storm Tuesday morning as it barreled toward Florida’s northeast Gulf Coast, threatening catastrophic storm surge, torrential rain and heavy winds. “Hurricane Michael is forecast […]

A landmark report released Sunday from the world’s top climate change group said “rapid, far-reaching and unprecedented changes in all aspects of society” are required to ward off the worst impacts of global warming. The report, released in South Korea by the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), said that the world’s economies must quickly reduce […]

The 2018 Nobel Peace Prize has gone to campaigners against rape in warfare, Nadia Murad and Denis Mukwege. Ms Murad is an Iraqi Yazidi who was tortured and raped by Islamic State militants and later became the face of a campaign to free the Yazidi people. Dr Mukwege is a Congolese gynaecologist who, along with […]

PM makes several policy pledges in effort to show Brexit has not blown her off course Theresa May has made a bold pledge to bring a decade of austerity to a close, as she appealed to the public over the heads of her squabbling party to back her to deliver a Brexit deal and secure her […]

A white man wearing all dark clothing allegedly entered the compound in Saylorsburg, Pennsylvania. A gunshot was fired on the Pennsylvania compound of exiled Turkish cleric Fethullah Gulen on Wednesday after an unidentified man entered the property, according to police. A white man wearing all dark clothing allegedly entered the compound in Saylorsburg, Pennsylvania, according […]

“There are multiple theaters where escalations could result, and something bigger than anybody really wants to see,” one expert warned. TEHRAN, Iran — When Iran launched ballistic missiles into Syria Monday, its message was aimed more at the Islamic Republic’s powerful foes: the United States, Israel and Saudi Arabia. The country’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard said it had […]