Tehran, Dec 26 :  Iran has met with the Afghan Taliban, a top Iranian security official said Wednesday according to the Tasnim news agency, just days after the militants attended...

Tokyo, Dec 26 :  Japan is withdrawing from the International Whaling Commission and will resume commercial whaling next year, a government spokesman said Wednesday, in a move expected to spark...

Tehran, Dec 26:  Iran has held talks with the Afghan Taliban, one of the country's top security officials said, the Tasnim news agency reported on Wednesday. "The Afghan government has...

Kabul, Dec 25: An hours-long gun and suicide attack on a Kabul government compound killed at least 43 people, the health ministry said Tuesday, making it one of the deadliest...

Bethlehem (Palestinian Territories), Dec 25: Pope Francis assailed the "insatiable greed" of today's consumerism at the Vatican and pilgrims crowded into the church at the traditional site of Jesus's birth...

Carita (Indonesia), Dec 25:  Desperately needed aid flowed into a stretch of Indonesia's tsunami-struck coastline Tuesday, but humanitarian workers warned that clean water and medicine supplies were dwindling as thousands...

Kabul, Dec 25: An hours-long gun and suicide attack on a Kabul government compound killed at least 43 people, the health ministry said Tuesday, making it one of the deadliest...

Kano, Dec 24: Gunmen at the weekend killed 17 people in the latest attack on villages in northern Nigeria's Zamfara state, witnesses and police said Monday. The assault came just...

Washington, Dec 24:  The order has been signed for the withdrawal of American troops from Syria, where they have been deployed to assist in the war against the Islamic State...

Jakarta, Dec 24: The death toll from a volcano-triggered tsunami in Indonesia has risen to 281, with more than 1,000 people injured, the national disaster agency said Monday, as the desperate...