A White House statement about deploying additional military resources to send a message to Iran suggests those resources are headed to the Mideast.
At least eight people have been killed in a suicide attack by the Taliban on a police headquarters in the northern Afghan city of Pul-e-Khumri.
Several people have been injured after a Russian Aeroflot plane caught fire and was forced to make an emergency landing at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport.
Iran has mobilized all its resources to sell oil on the "gray market," bypassing U.S. sanctions that Tehran considers illegitimate, Iran’s Deputy Oil Minister Amir Hossein Zamaninia said on May 5.
Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will meet with his counterpart from Venezuela, Jorge Arreaza, in Moscow on May 5 to discuss possible steps to help solve the current power struggle that is crippling the South American nation.
The U.S. State Department has approved the sale of some $6 billion in weapons sales to Persian Gulf allies Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates.
An Iranian newspaper says one of its reporters was arrested by police earlier this week while covering a May Day protest, during which dozens of activists were detained.
At least seven Afghan policemen were killed when suspected Taliban militants stormed checkpoints overnight in western Badghis Province, officials said.
Turkey says its purchase of Russian S-400 missile defense systems is no reason to exclude the country from the U.S.-led F-35 fighter jet project.
A senior Russian diplomat has confirmed that Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will meet U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo next week in Finland amid simmering tensions between Moscow and Washington over the crisis in Venezuela.
U.S. President Donald Trump talked on the telephone with Russian President Vladimir Putin for more than one hour on May 3, tackling the possibility of a new nuclear accord, the denuclearization of North Korea, and the political situation in Venezuela, the White House said.
U.S. General Tod Wolters has been sworn in as the top military officer of the NATO military alliance.
A Loya Jirga, or grand assembly, has wrapped up in Kabul, with leading Afghan politicians and tribal, ethnic, and religious leaders calling for an immediate cease-fire to help settle the nearly two-decade long conflict in the country.
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet has condemned the recent execution of two 17-year-old boys in Iran as "deplorable."
Saudi authorities received a help request from a distressed Iranian oil tanker off its coast in a message delivered through the United Nations in New York.
The head of the U.S. Justice Department has boycotted a House of Representatives Judiciary Committee hearing on Special Counsel Robert Mueller's Russia report, setting up another angry battle between Democrats and U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration.
Qatar has appointed an ambassador to Afghanistan for the first time, as the Persian Gulf nation hosts peace talks aimed at ending the nearly 18-year Afghan war.
Iran says it wants good relations with Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and their allies, and it called on them to end their bitter dispute with Persian Gulf neighbor Qatar.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed into law a new measure that aims to expand government control over the Internet.
Hundreds of opposition supporters have rallied in a neighborhood of the Venezuelan capital, after opposition leader Juan Guaido called for more antigovernment protests.
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