Facebook says it has removed 652 accounts and web pages linked to Russia and Iran for spreading political misinformation ahead of the November U.S. congressional elections.
Representatives of the Afghan Taliban plan to take part in peace talks in Moscow next month, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has said.
White House National Security Adviser John Bolton says the United States will continue to push for full withdrawal of Iran's military from Syria in talks with Russia over the Syrian civil war.
The U.S. Treasury has imposed sanctions on several Russian nationals and companies as Washington warned it was ready to tighten the economic screws further on Moscow if it did not change its ways.
Ukrainian authorities have launched an investigation into whether former state officials paid Paul Manafort for political consulting work, the country's prosecutor-general says.
Afghan officials say three gunmen have been killed in central Kabul after they fired a barrage of rockets while President Ashraf Ghani was making a speech to mark the start of the Islamic Eid al-Adha holiday.
Czechs and Slovaks on August 21 are marking 50 years since Soviet tanks crushed the Prague Spring reform movement -- an attempt by Czechoslovak Communist Party leader Alexander Dubcek to put "a human face on socialism" by reforming the totalitarian regime.
The jury in the bank and tax fraud trial of U.S. President Donald Trump's former campaign chairman Paul Manafort ended its third day of deliberations on August 20 without reaching a verdict.
Several explosions were heard in the diplomatic district of the Afghan capital Kabul on August 21, but there was no immediate information on casualties, police say.
Russian investigators say they have launched investigations into three separate attacks that wounded several police officers in the North Caucasus region of Chechnya.
Afghan officials say government security forces on August 20 freed 149 people who had been taken hostage by the Taliban several hours earlier in the northern province of Kunduz.
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said that Turkey's currency crisis is the result of an "attack" on his country's economy.
Iran’s oil minister says the French oil-and-natural-gas company Total has "officially left" Iran amid threats by the United States to impose sanctions against companies that do business in the country.
Officials in Afghanistan's northern province of Kunduz say the Taliban have taken more than 100 people, including women and children, hostage after seizing the buses they were traveling in.
Tehran has urged the European Union, Russia, and China to accelerate their efforts to salvage a 2015 nuclear deal between Tehran and world powers after the accord was abandoned by U.S. President Donald Trump on grounds that it was "deeply flawed."
White House national-security adviser John Bolton says Iran’s weapons programs will be a main topic of conversation as he meets in Jerusalem with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
The Taliban has seized a district center in the northern Afghan province of Faryab, officials say, days after the militants captured a military base in the same province.
The first of an expected 2 million Muslims on August 19 began celebrating the hajj in Saudi Arabia, one of the five pillars of the world's fastest-growing religion.
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