A U.S. envoy is reaffirming Washington's support for Syria's new government and telling The Associated Press in an exclusive interview that there is "no Plan B" for uniting the country.

A Bangladesh air force training jet has crashed into a school in the capital, killing the pilot and 26 other people, mostly students.

Syria's government has begun evacuating Bedouin families from the southern province of Sweida after over a week of clashes between Druze militias and Bedouin fighters.

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba says he will remain in office despite a major election defeat.

Russia has launched one of its largest aerial assaults on Ukraine in months, targeting Kyiv overnight into Monday.

Families of missing loved ones face a unique and agonizing grief called ambiguous loss.

Rescuers in Indonesia responding to a ferry that caught fire and killed at least three people say they have rescued 575 people — far more than originally reported — and that two people are still missing.

Ecuador has extradited the leader of a violent Ecuadorian gang who relied on hitmen, bribes and military weapons to do business to the United States.

Officials in Indonesia say a passenger ship carrying hundreds of people has caught fire at sea off Sulawesi island.

Congo and Rwanda-backed rebels have signed a declaration aiming for a permanent ceasefire in eastern Congo.

Gaza’s Health Ministry says the territory has experienced its deadliest day for aid-seekers in over 21 months of conflict, with at least 85 Palestinians killed while seeking aid.

A Vietnamese man who survived the capsizing of a tour boat in Ha Long Bay said he escaped the overturned vessel by swimming out through a window underwater.

U.S. envoy to Syria Tom Barrack says that Israel and Syria have agreed to a ceasefire following Israel’s intervention this week in fighting between Syrian government forces and.

The European Union and Britain are ramping up pressure on Russia over its war on Ukraine.

China’s Education Ministry has issued a safety warning for Chinese students in the Philippines, following what it describes as a series of criminal incidents targeting Chinese nationals.

Kickball is beloved among women in Liberia, where many sporting activities are male-dominated.

Members of Syria's Druze community are searching for loved ones and counting their dead after days of clashes in a southern province that left bloodied bodies of civilians on the streets and homes looted.

The five-member K-pop group 1VERSE is debuting Friday, with two North Korean defectors alongside members from the United States and Japan.

Syrian government forces have started withdrawing from the southern province of Sweida following days of vicious clashes with militias from the Druze minority.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says Ukraine's new government plans to boost domestic arms production to meet half its military’s needs within six months.

An Israeli shell slammed into the compound of the only Catholic church in the Gaza Strip, killing three people and wounding 10 others, including the parish priest, according to church officials.

Fresh off securing a plan to receive more U.S. weaponry, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has appointed a new prime minister – the key negotiator of his country’s deal with the U.S. to partner on the development of minerals.

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has toured a panda breeding facility in the final stages of an extended state visit that has cast China as a fellow champion of a global fair trade system under threat from the United States.

Iraqi officials say a fire engulfed a newly opened shopping center in eastern Iraq, killing more than 60 people in eastern Wasit province.