The head of Afghanistan's Independent Elections Commission has said that the country's presidential election has been postponed by two months to give the authorities more time to organize the ballot and fix the problems that occurred during the October parliamentary polls.
Militants attacked a remote security outpost in Pakistan's southwestern Balochistan Province, killing six members of the paramilitary forces, authorities say.
Russia's defense minister has traveled to Damascus where he handed a message from President Vladimir Putin to Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad, the Russian Defense Ministry says.
Qasym-Zhomart Toqaev will be sworn in on March 20 as Kazakhstan’s acting president, ending the nearly 30-year term of Nursultan Nazarbaev, who has resigned but is still expected to maintain a powerful influence in the country.
The United States is extending a waiver to allow Iraq to continue to buy electricity from Iran, despite sanctions imposed by Washington targeting Tehran’s energy sector.
An airliner caught fire on landing at Tehran's Mehrabad airport, but all 100 passengers were evacuated without injury, officials say.
The United States and Russia have held positive and substantive talks on the crisis in Venezuela, but the two sides are still divided over the legitimacy of President Nicolas Maduro, according to the U.S. special representative for the South American country.
Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbaev has abruptly resigned after nearly 30 years in office, but will continue to head the ruling party and keep his lifetime post as chairman of the influential Security Council.
The French defense minister has expressed concerns about the U.S. long-term commitment to NATO and said loyalty to the alliance should be "unconditional."
Afghanistan's Defense Ministry says Taliban militants have captured 58 soldiers after days of fighting during which dozens of troops briefly chased into neighboring Turkmenistan in the latest blow to Kabul's beleaguered security forces.
The administration of U.S. President Donald Trump has submitted a 2020 budget request that proposes to cut spending on international broadcasting by 22 percent and envisions the elimination of three RFE/RL language services.
Turkey repeated its claim that it and Iran were jointly carrying out a military operation against Kurdish separatists, although semiofficial Iranian media quoted its country’s military of denying it was involved.
A senior U.S. diplomat has told Afghanistan’s president that U.S. officials will no longer deal with his national security adviser, Reuters news agency is reporting, citing four knowledgeable American and Afghan sources.
President Vladimir Putin has signed legislation enabling Russian authorities to block websites and hand out punishment for "fake news" and material deemed insulting to the state or the public.
An affiliate of the Islamic State militant group has claimed responsibility for the killing on March 15 of an Afghan TV journalist in the eastern province of Khost.
The European Union’s foreign policy chief has marked the fifth anniversary of Russia’s seizure and annexation of Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula with scathing criticism of the Kremlin.
Pakistan’s Foreign Ministry has confirmed that nine of the 50 people killed in the Christchurch, New Zealand, mosque attacks on March 15 were Pakistani citizens.
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has pardoned more than 400 people, including several members of the opposition considered to be political prisoners by international rights organizations.
The lawyer of a U.S. Navy veteran detained in Iran says his client has been given a 10-year prison sentence.
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