Gunmen have launched an attack on an Afghan intelligence training center in Kabul, officials say.
An estimated two million Muslims will gather in Saudi Arabia next week for the hajj, which will feature the return of pilgrims from Iran, whose government boycotted the event in recent years after a 2015 stampede that killed hundreds of Iranians.
The Islamic State (IS) extremist group has claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing in a Shi'ite area of Kabul on August 15.
A suicide bomber has targeted students preparing for university exams in a predominantly Shi’ite neighborhood in the Afghan capital, Kabul, killing at least 48 people and wounding 67 others, official say.
Afghan officials say at least 25 people have been killed by a suicide bomber who carried out an attack in a mostly Shi'ite neighborhood on the west side of Kabul.
Pakistan's lower house of parliament has chosen a lawmaker from the Pakistan Tehrik-e Insaf (PTI) party to be the parliament speaker following general elections in July that were marred by allegations of fraud.
The Kremlin says preparations are under way for a meeting next week between a Russian official and White House national-security adviser John Bolton.
Taliban attacks on several military facilities in the northern Afghan province of Baghlan have killed at least 30 soldiers and police officers, provincial officials say.
The Russian military says that its forces in Syria have made plans to help UN peacekeepers fully restore patrols along the frontier with the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights.
British police investigating a man who drove into pedestrians outside Parliament early on August 14 say they are searching three addresses in central England as part of their inquiries.
Taliban fighters have overrun an Afghan National Army operations base in northern Afghanistan while, further to the south, security forces are battling for a fifth consecutive day against Taliban militants who seized the city of Ghazni.
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