A roadside bomb has killed 11 people on their way to a wedding in the northern Afghan province of Faryab, officials said Friday, as civilian casualties rise in the war-torn country. The blast occurred on Thursday just as 30 Afghan civilians were killed in US air strikes in the neighboring ...
Tunisia’s religious affairs minister was fired on Friday for “attacking the foundations of diplomacy” after he publicly suggested the conservative form of Islam practiced in Saudi Arabia had links to extremism. A government statement said Prime Minister Youssef Chahed had relieved Abdeljalil Ben Salem of his duties due to his ...