At least 50 children were among nearly 100 people wounded yesterday when the Taliban detonated a powerful car bomb in an area of Kabul housing military and government buildings, officials said. The rush-hour blast, which sent a plume of smoke into the air and shook buildings nearly two kilometres (1.2…

The United States said yesterday it had carried out a strike against Al-Qaeda-linked jihadists in northwestern Syria, its first such operation there in two years. On another front in Syria’s complex eight-year civil war, Israeli air strikes killed 15 people including civilians late Sunday, a monitor…

A small twin-engine plane crashed on takeoff Sunday into a hangar at a Texas airport, officials said, killing all 10 aboard. "The Dallas County Medical Examiner has confirmed 10 fatalities and no survivors," a spokeswoman for the town of Addison told AFP. The plane was heading from Addison…

At least 35 people were killed yesterday when an overcrowded bus plunged into a gorge in Indian-administered Kashmir, officials said. It was the second deadly crash in less than a week in the northern state of Jammu and Kashmir, renowned for its mountainous terrain and abysmal road safety record. The…