PAKISTAN

Injuries and damage are unknown, as communications can be slow in the remote area around the quake’s epicenter.

Narendra Modi visits his counterpart Nawaz Sharif, becoming the first Indian leader to visit Pakistan in more than a decade.

The surprise visit to Pakistan is the first by an Indian prime minister in more than a decade, and it comes just weeks after the two leaders met at the climate-change summit in Paris.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security prevented a family of 11 from boarding an L.A.-bound flight, but authorities have not said why.

The Kentucky senator and Republican presidential candidate is lashing out against fellow White House hopefuls and Washington waste for his holiday tradition.

Russia is arming Kyrgyzstan's military, to the northeast of Afghanistan, to counter threats from the Islamic State group.

The decision follows widespread public outrage after the immigration department initially denied visas to Hassan Ali's family members.

The release of the 21-page visa file comes as the process that allowed the San Bernardino shooter's entry to the U.S. on a fiancée visa remains under scrutiny.

The House Judiciary Committee chairman says there's no proof Farook met Malik met before she was cleared for immigration, as required by law.

Martha Raddatz and David Muir are expected to moderate the third Democratic presidential debate of 2015.

Obama said he was moved by the families' emphasis on tolerance and described them as representatives of "strength, unity and love.”

A new video shows a fighter encouraging the beheading of Shiite citizens in Saudi Arabia, followed by the gruesome execution of an alleged Saudi spy.

Saudi Arabia announced Tuesday a newly formed, 34-nation military alliance to fight ISIS. Nigeria was among the countries named that was caught off guard by the announcement.

In the wake of a California massacre, officials told a House panel Thursday that since 2001 some 9,500 foreigners have had visas revoked over terror concerns.

Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik received a traditional funeral, which was guarded by FBI agents, Reuters reported, citing sources.

Speaking at a ceremony to mark one year since a Taliban attack on a school in Pakistan, the Nobel Peace Prize winner said that blaming Muslims would only "radicalize more terrorists."

Islam is both a religion and a form of government, the former U.S. senator from Pennsylvania argued during Tuesday's "undercard" Republican debate.

The 34-nation group is said to include Arab countries such as Egypt, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates, and Islamic nations Turkey, Malaysia and Pakistan.

The news comes amid questions over how U.S. reviewers of visa applications missed the online postings of San Bernardino shooter Tashfeen Malik.

Former NASA scientist James Hansen on Saturday called the COP21 climate change conference in Paris "a fraud."

No group has yet claimed responsibility for the blast, which targeted a Shiite-dominated section of the country's northwestern Federally Administered Tribal Areas.