American University News

Otto Warmbier, a University of Virginia student, was "brutalized and terrorized" by the North Korean regime, his father Fred Warmbier said at the news conference. 

Hundreds of students returned today to the elite American University in Kabul seven months after militants stormed the campus, including those wounded in the bloody assault that killed 16 people.

Sixteen people were killed after militants stormed the American University of Afghanistan on Wednesday evening, in a nearly 10-hour raid. 

Pandemonium broke out Wednesday when a militant drove an explosives-packed car into a university wall, shattering the balmy evening calm and paving the way for two gunmen to storm into the campus packed with hundreds of students.

No group has so far claimed responsibility for the assault, but it occurred as the Taliban ramp up their nationwide summer offensive against the Western-backed government.

The attack underscored how despite efforts by the Afghan authorities to improve security, militants in this country are still able to stage large-scale attacks.

The gun and bomb attack on the American University of Afghanistan in Kabul left at least nine people dead.

No group has so far claimed responsibility for the attack, but it comes as Taliban insurgents step up their summer fighting season against the Western-backed Kabul government.

Explosions and gunfire rocked the university when it came under fire from militants. No one has immediately claimed responsibility.

Explosions and gunfire rocked the American University of Afghanistan in Kabul on Wednesday, prompting desperate students trapped inside classrooms to plead for help, in the latest militant attack in the Afghan capital.