A U.S.-led coalition invaded Afghanistan 25 years ago and launched Operation Enduring Freedom to dismantle al-Qaida.

Amnesty International says a Pakistani airstrike on a drug treatment center in Kabul should be investigated as a possible war crime.

Mount Olympus, the mythological home of ancient Greece’s 12 Olympian gods, may soon join UNESCO’s World Heritage List.

Hundreds of firefighters are battling wildfires in Portugal, Spain and Greece. Spain and Italy have sent reinforcements to Portugal, where a massive blaze has been burning for more than three days.

The United Nations mission in Afghanistan says it has documented the deaths of 13 civilians, mainly children and women, from Pakistani airstrikes on eastern Afghanistan.

The United Nations say that a violent crackdown on a protest in western Afghanistan has left at least one person dead.

Activists attempting to break Israel’s maritime blockade of Gaza say Israeli forces have intercepted their flotilla near the southern Greek island of Crete.

Nestled in a high-altitude valley in Afghanistan's Hindu Kush mountain range, Kabul is rapidly running out of water.

A 5.8 magnitude earthquake has struck northern Afghanistan, killing at least eight members of a refugee family near Kabul.

Afghanistan has accused Pakistan of targeting a hospital for drug users in the Afghan capital with an airstrike.

The killing of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei in joint U.S.-Israeli strikes has sparked anger across Shiite communities worldwide and is raising fears of wider unrest.

Three explosions and the sound of aircraft have been heard in Kabul, hours after Afghanistan launched an attack on Pakistan in retaliation for Pakistani airstrikes on border areas earlier in the week.

A new penal code issued by decree in Afghanistan sets harsher punishments for the mistreatment of animals than for domestic violence against women and solidifies into law inequality based on gender an...

A series of photos that seem to show the execution of 200 Greeks by Nazi soldiers in Athens appeared on eBay over the weekend.

Afghanistan is facing a surging child malnutrition crisis as aid cuts leave most families without food or treatment.

Populations of brown bears and wolves are burgeoning in Greece, thanks to conservation efforts. But not everyone is enthusiastic about the comeback.

The Associated Press, AFP, BBC News and Reuters on Thursday issued this joint statement about journalists in Gaza:  We are desperately concerned for

For six hours every day after school, Nahideh works in a cemetery, collecting water from a nearby shrine to sell to mourners visiting loved ones’ graves.

The cruel heat is back as southern Europe slips deeper into summer. In homes and offices, air conditioning is sweet relief.

The United States has inserted itself into Israel’s war against Iran, bombing three of the Islamic Republic’s nuclear sites overnight. U.S.

The medieval monastery clings almost impossibly to sheer cliffs high above the shimmering turquoise of the Aegean Sea.

Eastern and Western churches will celebrate Easter on the same day this year, while marking 1,700 years since the Council of Nicaea unified Christian doctrine.

A boat carrying migrants from Turkey to a nearby Greek island capsized, leaving at least seven people dead, including two children, while 23 people have been rescued.

A Greek charity has been treating dozens of orphaned, sick and injured Mediterranean monk seals, rare marine mammals whose population had dwindled so dramatically that the species at one point faced e...

Riot police have fired volleys of tear gas, stun grenades and water cannons at protesters hurling gasoline bombs and smashed-up paving stones in Athens.

An independent investigative committee in Greece has released a long-awaited investigation into the country's deadliest train crash.

Israeli police have raided a long-established Palestinian-owned bookstore in east Jerusalem, detaining the owners and confiscating books about the decades-long conflict.

Greece has declared a state of emergency on Santorini after hundreds of undersea earthquakes shook the resort island for nearly a week.

More Greek islands closed schools Tuesday as hundreds of earthquakes ratted the Aegean Sea, while a handful of hardy tourists enjoyed having Santorini’s stunning views to themselves.

Repeated earthquakes are rattling Greece’s volcanic island of Santorini. Scientists say the quakes aren't related to a slight increase in volcanic activity that has also been registered recently.

A series of earthquakes near the Greek island of Santorini have led authorities to shut down schools, dispatch rescue teams with sniffer dogs and sent instructions to residents including a request to ...

Researchers have found the oldest known evidence of lead pollution dating to around 5,200 years ago in ancient Greece.

A cross-border conservation project centered on barn owls is fostering cooperation between Israeli and Arab scientists, offering a rare example of coexistence in the conflict-ridden Middle East.

Under the deposed dictator, books had to pass detailed scrutiny by government censors To print a book in the days of the Bashar al-Assad regime, one first had to think of the censors. Was the book political in nature? Off to the ministry of information.…

Police in Greece say a marble statue of a woman believed to be more than 2,000 years old has been found abandoned in a garbage bag and handed to archaeologists.

Magnus Brunner, the European Union’s new commissioner for migration and internal affairs, is in Athens to discuss the bloc's migration policies with Greece, which has long been one of the major entry ...

Greek police say they have arrested two women for allegedly stealing other passengers’ luggage from the baggage claim area in Athens’ international airport.

Greece’s minister in charge of police says “all necessary sanctions” will be brought against officers on the island of Crete who failed to detain a driver found driving drunk and without a license who...

The German government is in ongoing discussions about whether to delete its presence on the X platform due to concerns over its algorithms, a spokesperson said on Friday.

Mourners lined the streets outside Athens’ central cathedral for the state funeral for former Prime Minister Costas Simitis, the architect of Greece’s joining the European Union’s common currency.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has announced his resignation after nearly a decade in power.

“Flow” is quite easily the best animated movie of the year and one of the most poetic ecological parables in recent memory, writes AP Film Writer Jake Coyle in his review.

Costas Simitis, former prime minister of Greece and the architect of the country’s joining the common European currency, the euro, has died at 88, state TV ERT reports.

A Jeju Air passenger jet carrying 181 people from Bangkok sped off the runway and burst into flames. Two crew were rescued in what was the country’s worst air disaster in decades.

Most Americans believe health insurance profits and coverage denials share responsibility for the killing of UnitedHealthcare’s CEO — although not as much as the person who pulled the trigger.

Earlier this month, Syrian leader Bashar Assad was ousted after nearly 25 years in power. Within hours, Israeli tanks rolled into the Golan Heights' demilitarized buffer zone in Syria created as part ...