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...

Leaked documents accuse the British government and the army of covering up the killing of children and the torture of civilians in Afghanistan and Iraq, according to a Panorama/Sunday...

A political delegation from Afghanistan’s Taliban arrived in the Iranian capital Tehran after a visit to Russia to hold peace talks, Iran’s Foreign Ministry announced yesterday. According to Arabi21,...

Russia’s special envoy for Afghanistan held talks with the leaders of the Afghan Taliban in Moscow on Friday, Anadolu reports. The Taliban delegation arrived in the Russian capital days...

Hamza bin Laden, a son of slain al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden and himself a notable figure in the militant group, was killed in a US counter-terrorism operation,...

Five men being held in Guantanamo Bay prison accused of planning and aiding the September 11 terror attacks will go on trial in 2021. If convicted at the military...

Russia is concerned about the double standards demonstrated by the West toward the presence of Daesh in Afghanistan, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said yesterday. “Undoubtedly, fight against terrorism...

The crucial ninth round of rejuvenated yet fragile peace talks between the US and Taliban were set to resume on Sunday in the Qatari capital, Doha, Anadolu Agency reports....

The US special envoy will travel to Qatar and Afghanistan on Tuesday to resume peace talks with the Taliban and the Afghan government, the State Department said, as the...

Turkish authorities have seized a total of 330 migrants attempting to cross to the Greek island of Lesbos, officials said on Sunday, says Reuters. The coastguard in the Kucukkuyu...

The United States believes that Hamza bin Laden, a son of slain al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden and himself a notable figure in the militant group, is dead,...

The Qatari Minister of Foreign Affairs’ Special Envoy for Counterterrorism and Mediation in Conflict Resolution, Mutlaq Bin Majed Al-Qahtani, announced that the intra-Afghan summit started in Doha yesterday sponsored...