Civilian casualties in Afghanistan in 2016 hit their highest recorded level, the UN said Monday, with nearly 11,500 non-combatants — one third of them children — killed or wounded. Fighting between Afghan security forces and militants, especially in populated areas, remained “the leading cause of civilian casualties” more than two ...
French investigators Sunday began questioning a suspect in the attack on troops outside the Louvre Museum in Paris, but the man refused to speak, a judicial source said. The suspect, believed to be an Egyptian national, was shot in the stomach and seriously wounded after lunging at soldiers with two ...
