The United States continues to experience outbreaks of mass shootings, withsome occurring in public settings, terrorizing the areas that Americans visit every day, while others take place in a residence's private environment.BackgroundStatistics indi...

By AFPAsian Americans were reeling Tuesday after two mass shootings in California targeting members of their community left 18 people dead -- with the alleged gunmen in both cases being older men of Asian descent.The killings came in a span of just 4...

A six-year-old boy opened fire in an elementary school classroom in the eastern US state of Virginia on Friday, seriously injuring a teacher, police said.No students were hurt in the incident at Richneck Elementary School in the coastal city of Newpo...

By AFPAn attacker shot and killed at least six people at a Walmart late Tuesday in the US state of Virginia, police said, adding the single shooter suspect is also dead.The mass shooting in the city of Chesapeake comes just before Americans celebrate...

By AFPA former police officer stormed a nursery in Thailand on Thursday, shooting dead at least 30 people, most of them children, before killing himself and his family.The attacker, armed with a shotgun, a pistol and a knife, opened fire on the child...

By AFPFive people were wounded on Sunday in a shooting attack on an Israeli bus in the occupied West Bank, medics said."We saw two gunshot victims outside of the bus who were being treated by IDF (Israeli military) medics and other people who were at...

Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said former premier Shinzo Abe is in a "very grave condition" after being shot on Friday."I pray that former prime minister Abe will survive," Kishida said. "It is a barbaric act during election campaigning, which...

A gunman armed with a high-powered rifle shot dead at least six people at a parade to mark US Independence Day in a wealthy Chicago suburb on Monday -- the latest in a series of shocking mass shootings on a holiday meant to celebrate all things Ameri...

Several dead in Copenhagen mall shooting, suspect, 22, arrestedGunfire in a Copenhagen mall Sunday left several dead and several wounded, Danish police said, adding they had arrested one person in his twenties.Images from the scene showed parents car...

Three people were killed and 11 injured during a shooting that took place on Saturday in the city if Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, reported the New York Times.The city’s police department said that the shooting took place at South Street, a lively area...