The UN said that civilians casualties in Afghanistan touched a record high in the first half of 2016, with children in particular paying a heavy price as insurgent groups step up fighting. Between January and June, 1,601 civilians were killed and 3,565 were wounded — a four percent increase in ...
Several thousand South Koreans staged an angry protest Thursday against the planned deployment of a US anti-missile system near their hometown, but President Park Geun-Hye insisted the move was a national security imperative. South Korea’s defense ministry announced last week the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense system, or THAAD, will ...
