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The ruling party of Kosovo's Prime Minister Hashim Thaci is claiming victory in the country's parliamentary elections.

Heavily-armed militants stormed the main airport in Karachi, Pakistan Sunday, leading to a five-hour gun battle with police and soldiers that left at least 24 people dead.

Iraqi officials say a double bombing outside a Kurdish party office has killed at least 18 people and wounded more than 65 others.

Boarding a pirate vessel off the coast of Somalia.

Shops were shuttered in the West Bank city of Ramallah on Sunday in solidarity with nearly 300 Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike against Israeli detention without trial.

China's foreign minister has held talks with his Indian counterpart in New Delhi on ways to boost diplomatic ties between the two governments.

Vietnam is calling on the United States to take a larger role in protecting the peace and settling conflicts in the disputed waters of the South China Sea.

James Zogby, President of the Arab American Institute, Marwan al-Muasher of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and Barbara Slavin of the Atlantic Council in Washington D.C. on June 3,2014.

As the World Cup in Brazil approaches, Nigerians are looking forward to watching their team compete for the fifth time in the country’s history. Recent attacks on football "viewing centers" have cast a shadow on the event, however, and many fans in Nigeria say for this World Cup, they will stay home.