An estimated 6,400 tons of opium were produced in Afghanistan in 2018, a 29 percent decrease compared to last year's 9,000 tons, according to the United Nations Office for Drugs and Crime (UNODC).
Protests over unpaid wages continued at a sugar factory in the Iranian city of Shush as the unrest appeared to spread. Videos posted on social media showed workers chanting slogans on November 19 at the Haft Tapeh sugar mill in Khuzestan Province.
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan have marked the completion of the offshore phase of a gas pipeline underneath the Black Sea, the latest sign of growing cooperation between Moscow and Ankara.
Pakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan has hit back at Donald Trump's claim that Islamabad does not do "a damn thing" for the Unites States, calling on the U.S. president to name an ally that has sacrificed more in the fight against militancy.
British Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt visited Iran for the first time on Monday for talks about the nuclear deal and freeing UK nationals held in Iranian jails.
U.S. President Donald Trump has accused Pakistan of not doing "a damn thing for us" and defended his administration's decision to withhold hundreds of millions of dollars in military aid to Islamabad.
British Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt is scheduled to visit Iran for the first time on November 19 for talks about the nuclear deal between world powers and Tehran.
Pakistani police say gunmen shot dead a former senior police officer in the southwestern city of Quetta.
Iraqi police say a Muslim cleric has been killed outside his home after suggesting that demonstrators in the southern port city of Basra should take up arms over poor public services.
The Associated Press reports that high-ranking members of the Taliban have held three days of talks in Qatar with the U.S. peace envoy for Afghanistan, Zalmay Khalilzad.
U.S. General Joseph Dunford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said the Taliban "are not losing" and there is no "military solution" to ending the war in Afghanistan.
U.S. President Donald Trump said Washington will make a final conclusion on who was involved in the death of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi early next week, following U.S. intelligence agencies’ assessment that Saudi Crown Prince Muhammad bin Salman ordered the killing.
Iraqi President Barham Salih has pledged to improve bilateral ties with Iran, amid concerns in Tehran over the economic impact of renewed U.S. sanctions.
China and the United States exchanged barbs on November 17 at an APEC summit in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea.
U.S. intelligence officials believe Saudi Crown Prince Muhammad bin Salman ordered the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Turkey last month.
The death toll among Afghanistan's security forces since 2015 is close to 29,000, Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has revealed, providing a figure far higher than anything previously acknowledged by the government.
Turkish police have arrested 13 activists, journalists, and academics for alleged links to rights activist Osman Kavala, who has been jailed for an alleged attempt to topple the government with mass protests in 2013.
A Pakistani government official who was reported missing in Islamabad earlier on November 16 has released a brief video statement in which he claimed he was visiting relatives in the country's northwestern Dera Ismail Khan district.
Western sanctions have played an important factor leading to the underperformance of the Russian economy over the past four years, a new study indicates.
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