UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has called for immediate talks between the Afghan government and the Taliban, saying peace can only be reached through "comprehensive intra-Afghan dialogue."
The United States for the first time named Gulnara Karimova, the elder daughter of the late president of Uzbekistan, in a major international bribery scheme, charging her with conspiracy to violate U.S. foreign corruption laws.
War is hell -- but for Russian tank crews, it's about to get a bit more comfortable.
Pakistan's government says it has taken control of 182 religious schools and detained more than 100 people as part of its crackdown against Islamist militants.
An Afghan presidential candidate and eight bodyguards of a rival candidate have been injured by a barrage of rockets that exploded in western Kabul near a ceremony honoring a prominent Afghan Shi'ite leader who was killed by the Taliban.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said his country is determined to go through with a deal to purchase S-400 missile defense systems from Russia, despite opposition from Washington.
The U.S. ambassador to Kyiv has called on Ukrainian authorities to fire the country’s special anticorruption prosecutor and tackle its corruption problem.
Russian law enforcement officials have detained two members of the Mormon church in the Black Sea port of Novorossiysk on unspecified charges.
An Afghan official says the death toll of a militant attack on a construction company in eastern Afghanistan has risen to 16.
Washington has also said it could withdraw an offer to sell Turkey the U.S. missile defense equivalent: the Patriot anti-missile defense system.
German prosecutors have charged a Russian national with plotting an attack in Germany.
Pakistan says it has arrested dozens of suspected militants, including prominent members of a group that has claimed responsibility for a deadly suicide bombing in Indian-administered Kashmir last month.
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