Iraq coach Graham Arnold has urged soccer’s international governing body to postpone his team’s intercontinental World Cup qualifier later this month because of disruptions caused by the war in the Middle East

The United States and Iran have offered sharply different accounts of the sinking of an Iranian warship in the Indian Ocean

An Indonesian court has sentenced three Australian men for the fatal shooting of another Australian

Japan's Nikkei 225 index closes down 5.2% and South Korea's benchmark Kospi falls 6% as higher oil prices spur selling

Colombians are electing a new Congress and narrowing the presidential field in a major test of political power

The U.S. military says it has killed six men in a strike on an alleged drug-smuggling vessel in the eastern Pacific Ocean as part of the Trump administration’s campaign against alleged traffickers

Police in New Zealand say a knapsack left in a donation area at a charity shop contained marijuana and more than $2,000 in cash

Defending champion Japan became the first nation to clinch a quarterfinal berth in the World Baseball Classic, then rallied on Masataka Yoshida's two-run homer in the seventh inning to beat Australia 4-3 at Tokyo Dome and assure first place in its first-round group

Iranian state TV says Mojtaba Khamenei, son of the country’s late supreme leader, has been named his successor