Four Afghans have been formally charged with arson for their alleged involvement in fires that destroyed much of Greece’s Moria refugee camp last week, the Associated Press (AP) reports. The four...

A former Guantanamo Bay inmate, Mullah Muhammad Nabi Omari, recently appeared in the Taliban delegation scheduled to meet with US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. Fayez Al-Kandari claimed on...

Despairing migrants left without shelter on the island of Lesbos after a fire destroyed Greece’s biggest refugee camp faced off against police on Friday as authorities began setting up...

US President Donald Trump has said that the number of American troops in both Iraq and Afghanistan are set to be reduced drastically, with this being the first time...

The United States on Wednesday imposed sanctions on International Criminal Court prosecutor Fatou Bensouda, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said, over her investigation into whether American forces committed war...

Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh dismissed US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s “baseless” allegations that Tehran is supplying the Taliban in Afghanistan with arms. Khatibzadeh said in a...

The Commander of the United States Central Command, General Kenneth McKenzie, said on Wednesday that his country intends to reduce the number of its forces in Iraq and Syria...

American President Donald Trump described the decision to send US forces to the Middle East as “the single biggest mistake” in his country’s history. In an interview with Australian...

Iranian authorities have arrested 19 Afghans after the Taliban flag was raised in the capital Tehran during Eid Al-Adha celebrations, Anadolu reported today. According to the news site, Commander of Tehran...

The United States and the Gulf Arab states have imposed sanctions on six targets they believe are associated with the terror group Daesh and its financing, the US announced...

Iran has reportedly decided to proceed with construction of the Chabahar railway project without India’s assistance citing a funding delay from New Delhi and will instead tap into approximately...

Six bodies have been recovered after a boat carrying migrants from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan sank in Lake Van in eastern Turkey, Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu said today, CNN Turk reported....

Russia has been discovered to have offered Afghan militants large bounties in return for the killing of the US soldiers and its coalition forces in Afghanistan, according to the New...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu last week hailed US President Donald Trump for imposing economic sanctions on International Criminal Court (ICC) officials, Israeli media reported. Trump last week authorised new sanctions against...

Asylum applications in Europe fell to the lowest level in April for over a decade according to the European Asylum Support Office (EASO). The group, which tracks trends in...

The deaths of three Afghan refugees in a car fire in Iran has prompted anger towards police in the country, Reuters reported. Afghanistan’s Foreign Ministry said authorities of Iran’s Yazd Province...

Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) yesterday welcomed the power- sharing agreement signed in Afghanistan between President Ashraf Ghani and Dr. Abdullah Abdullah ending months of...

The German army plans to operate a fleet of Israeli-made Heron TP drones in Afghanistan and Mali from 2021, the German Press Agency (DPA) reported. The German government said the new...

US military operations have killed at least 132 civilians in Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, and Somalia in 2019, a Pentagon report revealed yesterday. The report, which is conducted on an...

Afghanistan’s Foreign Ministry is investigating claims that Afghan migrants drowned after being tortured and thrown into a river by Iranian border officials. The Afghan migrants were attempting to enter...

Top US officials met with leaders of the Afghan Taliban in Qatar’s capital Doha and discussed implementation of the peace agreement signed between Washington and the Taliban in February,...

The terrorist group Daesh has claimed responsibility for an attack in northern Mozambique close to the site of gas projects worth $60 billion. On Monday, militants attacked the town...

The leaders of one of the most demonised and misunderstood groups in the world sat down in Qatar today and signed an accord which will see US and NATO...

The United States signed a deal with Taliban insurgents on Saturday that could pave the way toward a full withdrawal of foreign soldiers from Afghanistan over the next 14...

Asylum applications in the European Union (EU) countries has increased by 13 per cent in 2019 compared to the year before, the European Asylum Support Office (EASO) announced yesterday....

The Pentagon has broken its silence on the casualties of Monday’s plane crash, involving a US Air Force Bombardier E-11A in Afghanistan’s Ghazni province, and confirmed the deaths of...

Iran fakes CIA picture

During a televised discussion over which country has been the main source of instability in the Middle East, I struggled to place Iran ahead of the US. While it...

In their quest to refashion India as a Hindu state, Hindutva extremists have placed themselves on a collision course with the country’s secular constitution. Their goal is no less...

Iranian and Russian security chiefs have expressed concerns that the Deash terrorist organisation will re-group from their former Middle East strongholds into Afghanistan. The warnings were made during the...

The Taliban on Saturday resumed formal peace talks with the US in the Qatari capital, Doha, the group confirmed in a statement, Anadolu reports. Suhail Shaheen, the insurgents’ Qatar...

The Taliban yesterday released American and Australian hostages in return for the release of three of its leaders who were being held by Afghan authorities, Al-Khaleej Online reported. Police...