include head of Management Department Acting ACP Azizan Tukiman replacing Supt Megat Ayop Megat Arifi

He was taking photographs with his phone when he stumbled over a wire.... Though the main factions stopped fighting soon after the LNA withdrew in June, and a new unity government was installed that represents the best hope of peace for years, the danger of renewed conflict persists.... Nowhere is that danger more apparent than in southern Tripoli, where Haftar's forces, including many foreign mercenaries, left a lethal legacy of concealed explosives that have killed scores of people trying to

At least 14 people died and many more were injured in a hospital fire in North Macedonia, health officials said. The blaze occurred late on Wednesday in a makeshift hospital for COVID-19 patients in the western city of Tetovo. The main prosecutor's office in the capital, Skopje, said no medical personnel was among the victims. About a dozen people, including medical staff and patients, were injured. North Macedonia's Prime Minister Zoran Zaev described the incident as a" huge tragedy" in a state

KABUL, Afghanistan— Afghans rushed onto the tarmac of the Kabul airport Monday as thousands tried to flee the country after the Taliban seized power with stunning speed.... One showed a crowd pushing and shoving its way up a staircase, trying to board a plane, with some people hanging off the railings.In another video, hundreds of people could be seen running alongside a U.S. Air Force transport plane as it moved down a runway.... Some clung to the side of the jet just before takeoff....

Hundreds of people run alongside a U.S. Air Force C-17 transport plane as it moves down a runway of the international airport, in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Aug.16.... There were no major reports of abuses or fighting, but many residents stayed home and remained fearful after the insurgents' takeover saw prisons emptied and armories looted.... A resolute U.S. President Joe Biden said he stood" squarely behind" his decision to withdraw American forces and acknowledged the" gut-wrenching" images unf