While its recent attack on a military school in Peshawar, Pakistan brought international outrage, the Pakistani Taliban has long taken credit for an extensive list of assaults on civilians and the military in the country's largely-ungoverned tribal areas along the Afghan border -- and further afield...

Legislators in the capital of China's restive far-western Xinjiang province passed a law Wednesday to prohibit residents from wearing burqas in public, state media reported Thursday, highlighting the government's continued campaign against religious extremism.

The grim investigation begins after the siege at a Sydney cafe left two hostages and the gunman dead in an incident the Australian PM describes as "tragic beyond words."