U.S. peace envoy Zalmay Khalilzad says that a peaceful end to the 17-year conflict in Afghanistan requires the Taliban to engage in direct talks with the Afghan government, which they have consistently refused to do.
An explosion on January 16 near a patrol of the U.S.-led coalition in the northern Syrian town of Manbij killed and wounded more than a dozen people, a Syrian war monitoring group said, while an unnamed U.S. diplomat said four American soldiers died in the blast.
Putin's visit to Serbia is being closely watched in the West for clues as to Moscow's intentions in the former Yugoslavia.
U.S. President Donald Trump's nominee for attorney general is set to testify before a U.S. Senate committee, amid concerns about the Russia investigation overseen by Special Counsel Robert Mueller.
Russia remains "in material breach" of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty, the United States has said after a new round of bilateral talks ended with no progress.
Turkmen authorities have launched a campaign to register army reservists -- nearly all men under 50 -- amid concerns about militants in neighboring Afghanistan, according to a Defense Ministry source and accounts by citizens.
Pakistan has detained a senior member of the Afghan Taliban, sources in the group say.
Pakistan's top court on January 14 ordered a fresh medical report into the condition of a mentally ill prisoner on death row, an NGO representing him said, days after his execution was temporarily suspended.
Thousands of people joined marches across Poland to pay tribute to the mayor of Gdansk, who died on January 14 after being stabbed in the heart at a charity event.
At least four people were killed and more than 40 were wounded when a car bomb exploded near a foreign compound in the east of Afghanistan's capital, Kabul, on January 14, officials said.
Saudi Arabia's rulers have "reiterated their commitment" to hold the killers of prominent Saudi columnist Jamal Khashoggi accountable, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has said in Riyadh.
A Polish man accused of involvement in the firebombing of a Hungarian cultural center in western Ukraine last year says he received instructions on the attack from a German journalist who has worked for a German deputy with the anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany (AfD) party.
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