Pakistani police say gunmen shot dead a former senior police officer in the southwestern city of Quetta.
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.
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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