The siege started after midnight and lasted about two hours as around 30 militants pummelled the mountainous outpost from three sides, one senior intelligence official told AFP on condition of anonymity. "Sixteen soldiers were martyred and five wer...

Ex-prime minister Khan was arrested in May 2023 after being ousted from office and mounting an unprecedented campaign of defiance against the nation's powerful military leaders. His detention over graft allegations sparked nationwide unrest, some t...

Police arrested a 50-year-old Saudi doctor at the scene after two people were killed and 68 injured when an SUV ploughed through the festive crowd in Magdeburg on Friday night. Residents went to the Johanneskirche church, just opposite the market, ...

Israel's military said it had failed to intercept the projectile, which struck a district of Tel Aviv municipality, forcing many residents to leave their homes. Yemen's Huthi rebels later claimed responsibility for the attack, saying it used a ball...

Ukraine struck the small town of Rylsk in Russia's Kursk region, killing five and wounding 12, said the governor, Alexander Khinshtein. An earlier toll from the governor said six people were killed. Khinshtein accused Kyiv of firing US-supplied H...

Donovan Mitchell scored 27 points and Darius Garland added 16 for the Cavs, who led by as many as 36 points as the Bucks struggled in the absence of injured guard Damian Lillard. Giannis Antetokounmpo, who led the Bucks to victory in the NBA Cup fi...

The United States does not officially recognize Taiwan diplomatically but it is the self-ruled island's strategic ally and largest supplier of weapons. China, which has ramped up political and military pressure on Taiwan in recent years, has repea...

Today, the volcanic rock likeness of the Hindu god Ganesha, bearing four arms and the head of an elephant, stands tall inside Indonesia's National Museum in the capital Jakarta. The country is repatriating hundreds of similarly pillaged treasures, ...

At least two people were killed, one of them a young child, and 68 injured, said authorities in the city of Magdeburg, located about 130 kilometres (80 miles) southwest of Berlin. The suspect was a 50-year-old medical doctor from Saudi Arabia livin...

Families were crowded at the market set up around a large Christmas tree in the centre of Magdeburg when a BMW barrelled towards them around 7 pm (1800 GMT). "We didn't hear the car," a 32-year-old woman named Nadine told Bild daily, saying she had...

Bayern are now seven points clear of second-placed Bayer Leverkusen, who have the chance to close the gap back to four points when they host Freiburg in Saturday's late game. However, there was little mood for celebration after at least two people ...

The 36-hole parent-child tournament at Ritz-Carlton Golf Club in Orlando will be the first quasi-competitive event for Woods since he underwent back surgery in September. Back trouble and leg injuries from a 2021 car crash have limited Woods' abili...

"There is no winner in this case which involves members of my family and people I have known since childhood," the former Juventus and Manchester United star said through his lawyer. On Thursday, Mathias Pogba, the elder brother of the footballer, ...

Paty, 47, was murdered in October 2020 by an 18-year-old Islamist radical of Chechen origin after showing cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed in class. His killer, Abdoullakh Anzorov, died in a shootout with police. Two friends of Anzorov, Naim Bouda...

Since Islamist-led rebels toppled Syrian president Bashar al-Assad on December 8 Israel has carried out hundreds of air strikes on Syrian military facilities in what it says is a bid to prevent them from falling into hostile hands. In a move widely...