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.
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.
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.
Former United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan has died at the age of 80 of an unspecified illness.
The leader of Afghanistan's Taliban has said there can be no peace in the country as long as foreign "occupation" goes on.
Russian President Vladimir Putin and German Chancellor Angela Merkel will meet on August 18 for talks about the conflicts in Ukraine and Syria, as well as the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline project that has drawn U.S. opposition.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel plans to visit the Caucasus states of Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan following her meetings outside of Berlin with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Pakistani lawmakers were gathering in Islamabad to elect former cricket star and longtime politician Imran Khan as the country's prime minister.
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