The United Nations' Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) has expressed "grave concern" about the impact on civilians from an "increase in violence around the country" during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan.
Iran said on May 13 that it has sentenced an Iranian citizen who works for the British Council to 10 years in prison on charges of "spying."
Azerbaijan's Foreign Ministry has indicated that Arsenal soccer star Henrikh Mkhitaryan can play in the Europa League final in Baku later this month, despite longstanding tensions between Azerbaijan and his native Armenia
The United Nations says the first day of the withdrawal from western Yemen of Iranian-backed Huthi rebels from two of the three Red Sea port facilities they've vowed to evacuate under a peace deal has gone according to plan.
Afghan officials say a former prominent female television journalist in Afghanistan has been killed in Kabul.
The United Nations says Yemen’s Iranian-backed Huthi rebels have agreed to unilaterally redeploy their forces out of three Red Sea port facilities over four days beginning on May 11.
U.S. President Donald Trump's attorney, Rudy Giuliani, says he is canceling plans to visit Ukraine to encourage investigations by the country’s incoming government that he thinks would help Trump politically.
Maria Butina, who pleaded guilty to failing to register as an agent for the Russian government while in the United States and was sentenced to 18 months in U.S. prison, says she believed her notes and analysis would be "valuable" for Russian officials.
Kazakhstan’s interim president says 231 Kazakh citizens have been repatriated during the past week from Syria, where they were believed to have joined the Islamic State (IS) extremist group or were children of IS fighters.
The U.S. State Department has announced that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov during a visit to Russia on May 13 and May 14.
The U.S. Air Force has confirmed that B-52 bombers sent by the White House to the Persian Gulf to counter unspecified threats from Iran have arrived at a major U.S. air base in Qatar.
The United States appears to be taking a carrot-and-stick approach to Tehran, threatening “swift and decisive” response to any Iranian attack, while at the same time urging the country’s leaders to sit down for talks.
Taliban militants have attacked the offices of an international aid group in central Kabul, killing at least five people and wounding 24, officials say.
At least eight people have been killed and 25 others injured in a powerful blast that targeted security forces guarding a famous Sufi shrine in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore, police said.
A Danish newspaper reported that prosecutors have charged a former chief executive of Danske Bank for his involvement in one of the world’s biggest money-laundering scandals.
Russia's energy minister said that oil is expected to resume flowing through a key pipeline to Europe by the middle of May, after contaminated supplies disrupted exports.
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has abruptly canceled a visit to Germany hours before he was due to arrive in Berlin, because of what a spokesman said were "pressing issues."
The U.S. defense chief has vowed to hold Iran "accountable for any attack on U.S. forces or our interests," as Washington stepped up its rhetoric and said it was deploying an aircraft carrier battle group to waters near Iran.
Russian authorities said 41 people were killed when a passenger jet burst into flames in an emergency landing at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport, and that the pilot said problems started when the aircraft was struck by lightning.
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg is visiting Ankara amid a widening rift between alliance members Turkey and the United States over Turkish plans to purchase a Russian missile system.
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