Western powers are calling on Russia to rein in its ally Syria and prevent another potential "humanitarian crisis" from breaking out in the latest arena of the country's seven-year civil war.
French President Emmanuel Macron is calling on the European Union to boost military cooperation and stop relying on the United States for defense while reaching out to Russia to develop a "strategic partnership."
As relations between the United States and Turkey have soured in recent months, Ankara has stepped up its pursuit of better relations and increased trade with Europe and Russia.
Russia's Foreign Ministry says that multiparty talks aimed at ending the war in Afghanistan have been postponed, after a request from Afghanistan's president.
U.S. sanctions against Russia over the March poisoning in Britain of a former Russian agent and his daughter have gone into effect, targeting foreign aid, the sale of defense and security goods, and U.S. government loans for exports to Russia.
Afghan officials said unknown aircraft hit Taliban forces in a province along the border with Tajikistan, killing eight militants, a day after a shooting that left at least two Tajiks killed.
United Nations investigators have called for six top military figures in Burma to be prosecuted in an international court for genocide and war crimes against the country's Rohingya minority.
Iran accused the United States of "economic aggression" as Tehran’s legal challenge against renewed sanctions by the United States went before the United Nations' highest court on August 27.
Iran is asking the International Court of Justice (IJC) to order the United States to lift sanctions imposed by President Donald Trump’s administration, relying on a decades-old treaty of friendship between Washington and Tehran.
Authorities say the head of Islamic State militants in Afghanistan has been killed in a strike on the group's hideouts in Nangarhar Province.
Two people were killed and one wounded in a shooting along Tajikistan’s border with Afghanistan.
U.S. Senator John McCain, a six-term Republican senator from Arizona and former prisoner of war during the Vietnam conflict, has died of brain cancer at age 81.
An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.1 shook the border area between Iran and Iraq early on August 26, with Iranian media reporting that at least one person was killed and about 100 others were injured.
The United States has told Russia it is ready to take strong military action against Syria if President Bashar al-Assad uses chemical weapons to try to recapture one of his country’s last rebel-held provinces, Bloomberg News is reporting.
The Russian Embassy in London mocked the British military and says its armed forces “pose no threat to Britain” two days after U.K. Typhoon jets based on Romania scrambled to investigate Russian aircraft heading toward NATO airspace.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel held what she called "intensive" discussions with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev in talks that addressed energy cooperation, human rights, and the conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region.
Austria's foreign minister has defended her curtsy to Russian President Vladimir Putin at her wedding last week, calling it a customary dance move and not a sign of submission.
The national-security adviser to Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has resigned from his position, an Afghan official said on August 25.
Russian opposition politician and anticorruption campaigner Aleksei Navalny has been detained outside his residence in Moscow, his spokeswoman Kira Yarmysh said on Twitter on August 25.
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