The Islamic State (IS) terror group on Monday claimed responsibility for the suicide attack on an army base that left nine persons dead and 10 injured in the Afghan capital here. ....

Heavy gunfire and explosions have been heard at a military academy in the Afghan capital Kabul on Monday morning, media reports said. ....

At least 14 people were killed and six others injured during a shootout at a club in Brazil on Saturday, police said. ....

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has strongly condemned Saturday's deadly terrorist attack in Afghanistan, which was claimed by the Taliban. ....

At least 40 people were killed and 140 others injured on Saturday when a Taliban suicide bomber exploded an ambulance laden with explosives near Sidarat Square in central Kabul where several government offices are located. ....

A fire gutted the ground floor of a hospital in South Korea on Friday and sent toxic fumes raging through the six-storey building, killing at least 37 people and injuring 131 others in one of the country's deadliest blazes in a decade. ....

Pakistani security forces seized a huge cache of weapons and explosives in the northwest tribal region of Orakzai Agency on Friday. ....

Former Olympic doctor Larry Nassar was awarded 40 to 175 years jail sentence in Michigan for abusing female athletes after the testimony of 156 victims, BBC reported on Wednesday. ....

A Haqqani network commander and two of his companions were killed in a US drone strike in Pakistan's North Waziristan tribal region on Wednesday, a media report said. ....

A new green index has ranked India the fourth worst country worldwide in curbing environmental pollution. ....