One of Afghanistan's most powerful regional politicians has vowed to fight his ouster as governor of the northern province of Balkh, posing a potential threat to the shaky, Western-backed governing coalition of President Ashraf Ghani.
The United States has vetoed a draft UN resolution rejecting U.S. President Donald Trump's decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital, after all 14 other Security Council members backed the measure.
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has called U.S.-backed Kurdish fighters "traitors," according to an online statement from his office on December 18.
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has announced the resignation of a powerful ethnic Tajik governor and political leader in a northern province, angering the politician's party -- which said he had been sacked.
Russian President Vladimir Putin's spokesman says that a tip-off from the CIA about an alleged terror plot in St. Petersburg "helped save many lives" and should serve as an "exemplary" model of productive U.S.-Russian cooperation.
The Kremlin says that the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) provided information that helped Russia thwart planned terrorist attacks in St. Petersburg.
Afghan officials say Taliban militants have attacked two checkpoints in the southern province of Helmand, killing 11 police officers.
Pakistani officials say at least seven people have been killed and about 30 others injured in a suicide attack on a church in the southwestern city of Quetta.
Right-wing leaders from several European countries have met in the Czech capital, Prague, to criticize the European Union and what they call a policy of "mass immigration."
Afghan officials say that at least 10 homeless drug addicts have died overnight in the capital, Kabul, due to subzero temperatures.
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