War & Conflict

News Hour: Militants killed 17 soldiers during a pre-dawn ambush on an army base in Indian-administered Kashmir on Sunday, in a major attack in the Himalayan region already reeling from weeks of deadly unrest. The heavily...

News Hour: Unidentified gunmen killed two Saudi policemen in the mainly Shiite eastern city of Dammam late on Saturday, the interior ministry said, describing it as a “terrorist attack”. The two officers were patrolling in a...

News Hour: An explosion rocked the bustling Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan on Saturday night, injuring at least 29 people, and authorities said they were investigating the blast as a criminal act not immediately linked to any...

News Hour: Airstrikes and clashes tested a fragile ceasefire in Syria on Saturday as civilians waited for aid and tensions mounted between the deal’s brokers Russia and the United States. In New York, the UN Security...

News Hour: A Palestinian stabbed an Israeli soldier on Saturday in the flashpoint West Bank city of Hebron before he was shot dead, the army said, in the fourth attack on Israelis in less than 24...

News Hour: Israel’s air force hit the Hamas-run Gaza Strip on early Thursday after Palestinians fired a rocket into southern Israel, the military said. “Israel Air Force aircraft targeted three Hamas posts in the northern Gaza...

News Hour: An explosion on a speedboat in Bali left two foreigners dead and 18 other tourists injured on Thursday, sparking dramatic scenes as rescuers rushed to haul stunned and bloodied holidaymakers off the vessel. Dazed...

News Hour: Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has told American special forces to leave Mindanao, blaming their presence in the southern region for the continuing conflict, while signalling his desire to “reorient” the country’s foreign policy vis-a-vis...

News Hour: Dozens of inmates at a prison in central France escaped from their cells and rioted on Monday after stealing the keys of a warden, prison sources said. “Two prisoners jostled a guard and managed...

News Hour: Two huge US strategic bombers flew over South Korea on Tuesday in a show of force against North Korea following Pyongyang’s fifth and largest-ever nuclear test. The supersonic B-1B Lancers reached airspace over the...