AFGHANISTAN

After more than a decade of war in the Middle East, U.S. tanks are now being painted woodland green as the Russian threat in Europe continues.

In a statement released Monday, the militant group said that Omar, last seen in public in 2001, died on April 23, 2013.

Austrian police discovered three critically ill children in a truck carrying 26 migrants. Separately, four suspects in the deaths of 71 migrants appeared in a Hungarian court.

The medical charity said that a Bollywood movie, which portrays an aid worker secretly carrying guns and assisting in murders, could endanger its agents in conflict zones.

Ali Shukri Amin pleaded guilty in June to using social media to raise money for the Islamic State group.

The 2013 verdict, which ruled that some NSA actions were unlawful, granted a preliminary injunction to prevent the collection of raw data.

The number of refugees and migrants crossing the Mediterranean into Europe has passed 300,000 this year, a UNHCR report said Friday.

The U.S. said Thursday it had asked Uzbekistan to join the multinational coalition it leads against Islamic State, saying Central Asia's most populous state was free to choose a way of contributing to the fight against the militant group.

The incident occurred in the volatile southern Helmand province in Afghanistan.

The victims reportedly lived in a camp for displaced people, which was near the gas company terminal, in the western Afghan city of Herat.

On Monday, British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said that economic sanctions against Tehran might begin to be lifted as early as spring next year.

Afghanistan and Pakistan accuse each other of doing too little to prevent Taliban fighters and other Islamist militants from operating on their territory.

Malala Yousafzai, an advocate for girls' education who was shot by the Taliban, has been given protection by British authorities after recent threats to her life.

The Taliban denied it was behind the blast in Afghanistan’s capital of Kabul that killed at least 12 people Saturday, saying, "We are investigating who carried out the attack."

The "loud explosion" in a diplomatic area had alarms ringing at the U.S. embassy in Afghanistan.

Growing numbers of migrants are arriving in Greece, a country ill-equipped to help because of its own economic struggles. But Greek citizens are stepping in where government is failing.

The system was expected to be ready "in a few years."

The first two female graduates of the U.S. Army's Ranger School say they hope to open doors for other women.

The Pakistani military says it has entered the late stages of a campaign to drive Taliban militants away from the Afghan border.

The woman was abducted by two gunmen a few meters from her office in Taimani area of Kabul.

Chancellor Angela Merkel called Germany's response to the migrant crisis "absolutely unsatisfactory."