Human Rights Watch says the Israeli military unlawfully fired white phosphorus shells into a village in southern Lebanon.

Police in New Zealand say a knapsack left in a donation area at a charity shop contained marijuana and more than $2,000 in cash.

Japan started deploying its first batch of domestically-developed long-range missile, with their launchers arriving at a southwestern Japanese army camp Monday as the country accelerates its strike-back capability in response to rising challenges in th…

The United States has begun a large military exercise with South Korea involving thousands of troops while also waging an escalating war in the Middle East.

Canadian police say almost two dozen people needed to be rescued when they were stranded on an ice shelf in Georgian Bay in southwestern Ontario.

Iran is close to naming a new supreme leader, Iranian state media reported Sunday, as the country’s top clerics seek to show that the government is functioning after more than a week of punishing military strikes from Israel and the US.

Guinea’s main opposition leader says the government is crushing political competition after it dissolved dozens of parties including the biggest ones.

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has called special elections for three districts that, if his party wins, would give the Liberals a majority government.

A retired Lebanese security officer has gone missing, and his family says Israeli operatives kidnapped him to get information about a long-missing Israeli airman.

Thousands of civilians have fled the opposition-held town of Akobo in eastern South Sudan following an evacuation order issued by the army to pave the way for an operation.