Afghanistan

An Afghan court May 19 sentenced 11 policemen to one year in prison for failing to protect a woman who was lynched by a mob in Kabul after being falsely accused of blasphemy.

At least three people have been killed in Afghanistan when a suicide bomber detonated a car near Kabul main airport on Sunday morning. As many as 21 other people were wounded.

The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack. 

Three people including a foreigner working with a European Union police unit were killed when a Taliban car bomber struck a foreign convoy May 17, the latest attack of Afghanistan's fighting season.

A US jury on May 15 sentenced 21-year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to death for his role in the 2013 Boston Marathon bombings, one of the worst assaults on American soil since the September 11, 2001 attacks.
 

A total of 190 migrants have been captured in multiple locations in northwestern Turkey.

Some 113 migrants consisting of Afghans and Syrians were captured in an operation by the Turkish Coast Guard May 14 off the coast of the Ayvac?k district in the northwestern Çanakkale province. The migrants were trying to reach the Greek island of Lesbos on a boat. 

Pakistani troops on May 15 began a "massive" offensive to try to push the Taliban from their last major stronghold in the mountainous northwestern region of North Waziristan, moving in from north and south, officials and residents said. 

A total of 126 migrants have been captured in Turkey's northwestern province of Edirne, as they tried to illegally cross the border on May 14.

Two Indians and an American were among five people killed when gunmen stormed a downtown Kabul guesthouse, trapping dozens of people attending a concert and triggering an hours-long standoff with Afghan security forces, officials said May 14.

Pistol-wielding gunmen in Pakistan's biggest city Karachi stormed a bus carrying members of the Shiite Ismaili minority May 13, killing at least 43 in the first attack in the country officially claimed by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). 

MUP, UNHCR seek improvements to asylum system

BELGRADE -- The Serbian Interior Ministry (MUUP) and UNHCR in Serbia "will boost cooperation on improving the national asylum system pursuant to international standards."