The United States intends to step up military operations against Daesh (ISIS) militants in eastern Afghanistan during a temporary ceasefire between the Afghan...
Australian special forces have been accused of committing war crimes in Afghanistan in a secret defence report leaked Friday that described a "complete lack...
For most observers of the unfolding trade war between the United States and China, the casus belli is the convergence of China’s unfair trade practices with...
Disfigured by four decades of war, the Afghan capital Kabul offers few reminders of its former glory in Islamic art or religious tolerance but “King Babur’s...
An Afghan official says the Taliban have attacked an army post in the western Badghis province, killing six soldiers and wounding seven.
Authorities in Pakistan's restive tribal region expanded a 24-hour curfew along the Afghan border to avert further clashes between tribesmen and militants...
The world is less peaceful than a decade ago, mostly due to conflict in the Middle East and Africa that is costing the global economy trillions of dollars, an...
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani condemned Monday's suicide bomb attack outside a peace tent gathering of Muslim clerics in Kabul and backed their fatwa against...
The Daesh (ISIS) affiliate in Afghanistan claimed responsibility Tuesday for the deadly suicide bombing the previous day that targeted a meeting of the...
The leading Syrian Kurdish militia said Tuesday it would withdraw from Manbij, easing fears of a direct clash between NATO allies Washington and Ankara over...
Afghanistan's top religious body has issued a ruling, or a fatwa, declaring suicide attacks "haram" - forbidden under Islamic law.
At a time when the United States hopes to exert maximum pressure on Iran, a regional bloc created by Gulf Arab countries to counter Tehran looks increasingly...
Nearly half of all children in Afghanistan are out of school due to conflict, poverty, child marriage and discrimination against girls, the number rising for...
Nearly half of Afghanistan's children are not attending school because of worsening security, poverty and sex discrimination, according to a new UN report...
Nine Syrian refugees, including seven children, trying to reach Europe drowned on Sunday when their speedboat sank off Turkey's Mediterranean coast, state...
The French newspaper Le Monde is reporting that Saudi Arabia wants France to help prevent Qatar from buying Russia’s most advanced air defense missile system.
A senior Qatari official said Sunday his country will not be dragged into any conflict with Iran.
A Russian pilot who was missing presumed dead after his plane was shot down three decades ago during the Soviet intervention in Afghanistan has been found...
Czech lawmakers have approved a government plan to increase the number of troops deployed in Afghanistan and other countries.
The European Court of Human Rights ruled Thursday that Romania and Lithuania allowed the detention and abuse of a Saudi and a Palestinian at secret U.S....