Sri Lanka's foreign minister says the government plans to set up a special court by next year to hear allegations of abuses during the country's decades-long civil war.
When Faraaz Hossain's family received his body after the deadly siege at the Holey Artisan Bakery in Dhaka, Bangladesh, they noticed the palm of his right hand had been sliced clean through.
An Afghan official says two sons and two nephews of a tribal leader were killed when a suicide bomber struck the family's car after prayers for a major Muslim holiday in northern Sari Pul province.
Police in Bangladesh say they are questioning family members of five attackers who stormed an upscale restaurant in Dhaka's diplomatic zone and killed police officers and hostages before they were fatally shot by security forces over the weekend.
President Vladimir Putin has remained poker-faced as Britain voted to exit the European Union, but the Russian leader stands to gain significantly from the British departure, which would weaken the EU and create new tensions in the bloc.
Along the border near the southern Turkish city of Gaziantep, a wall of giant concrete blocks is going up as Turkey tries to seal off a region that for years was a jihadi highway through which thousands of extremist fighters flowed to join the Islamic State group in neighboring Syria.
The flagship newspaper of China's ruling Communist Party has warned Washington that there will be a "price" to pay if it crosses China's "bottom line" by meddling in disputes over the South China Sea.
As Muslims around the world celebrate the end of Ramadan, many are struggling to comprehend a wave of attacks that killed 350 people across several continents during the holy month and made urgent the question of what drives the militants to ever more spectacular violence against civilians.
Hong Kong officials say there's little chance a bookseller wanted in mainland China would be sent back after mainland authorities threatened him with tougher punishment if he didn't return.
India's prime minister hopes his visit this week to four African nations, some not visited by an Indian leader in more than three decades, will reinvigorate cooperation in energy, trade and investment.
While the Islamic State group is losing territory in its self-styled caliphate, it is tightening its grip on the estimated 3,000 women and girls held as sex slaves.
El Salvador's human rights agency says the government has failed to properly investigate the 1975 killing of poet Roque Dalton, who was allegedly slain by leaders of a leftist guerrilla group in which he was a member.