Several Afghan soldiers and militants were killed and injured after Taliban militants stormed a national army's main base in Afghanistan's southern province of Helmand early Friday, a local source said.
Pakistan says it will release an Indian pilot who was shot down and captured after his fighter jet crossed the de-facto border in the disputed Kashmir region on Wednesday.
The United States on Thursday offered a $1 million reward for information on a son of late Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, seeing him as an emerging face of extremism.
The US-North Korea nuclear summit in Hanoi ended abruptly without a deal Thursday, with President Donald Trump saying he had decided to "walk" in the face of Kim Jong Un's demands to drop sanctions.
A crew from US-based television network Univision said it was detained for more than two hours in Venezuela after offending President Nicolas Maduro during an interview by asking questions about poverty and his legitimacy to govern.
