U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis has met with Pakistani leaders in Islamabad as Washington looks to bolster the fight against terrorism amid U.S. complaints that Pakistan is not doing enough against insurgent groups within its borders.
Afghanistan's parliament has approved 11 nominees for ministerial positions after months of deadlock.
U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis is scheduled to meet Pakistani leaders on December 4 as he looks to bolster the fight against terrorism amid complaints from Washington that Islamabad is not doing enough against insurgent groups within its borders.
Former Egyptian Prime Minister Ahmed Shafiq has denied reports that he was kidnapped, in a phone interview on live TV.
U.S. President Donald Trump has lashed out at the FBI following revelations that one of its agents was removed from a team investigating Russia’s alleged election meddling because of anti-Trump text messages.
The Taliban commander of its so-called "special forces" branch, known as the "Red Unit," has been killed by Afghan forces, according to Afghanistan's main intelligence agency.
British cybersecurity experts have warned U.K. government agencies not to use antivirus software produced by the Russian firm Kaspersky Lab.
The United States has announced that President Donald Trump will pull the country out of the United Nations Global Compact on Migration, saying it interferes with U.S. sovereignty.
U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is scheduled to meet Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in Vienna next week, with Syria and Ukraine to be on the agenda, a senior State Department official has said.
The Russian State Duma is considering barring all U.S. media from the lower house of parliament and will discuss the proposal next week, the head of the chamber's rules committee says.
At least nine people have been killed after Pakistani Taliban gunmen dressed in all-enveloping burqas stormed the campus of an agriculture university in northwestern Pakistan, hospital sources and police tell RFE/RL.
Russia has approved a draft agreement with Egypt for Russian warplanes to use Egyptian military bases, in a move allowing Moscow to increase its military presence in the Middle East.
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