Washington: The last-minute decision to send 3,000 U.S. troops to Afghanistan to help partially evacuate the U.S. Embassy is calling into question whether President Joe Biden will meet his August...

Kabul: The Taliban completed their sweep of the country's south on Friday as they took four more provincial capitals in a lightning offensive that is gradually encircling Kabul, just weeks...

Kabul: The Taliban captured Afghanistan's third-largest city and a strategic provincial capital near Kabul on Thursday, further squeezing the country's embattled government just weeks before the end of the American...

Tehran: In his first phone call to a Western leader, the new president of Iran asked his French counterpart Monday to help secure Iran's rights in now-stalled talks to revive...

Washington: The US military and the Group of Seven leading industrialised nations on Friday accused Iran of being behind last week's deadly attack on an oil tanker in the Arabian Sea....

Kabul:The Taliban ambushed and killed the director of Afghanistan's government media center on Friday in the capital, Kabul, the latest killing of a government official just days after an assassination...

Kabul: A powerful explosion rocked an upscale neighbourhood of Afghanistan's capital Tuesday in an attack that apparently targeted the country's acting defence minister. At least 10 people were wounded, a health...

Washington: An officer died after being stabbed Tuesday during a burst of violence at a transit station outside the Pentagon, and a suspect in the incident was shot by law...

Kabul: The Afghan president on Monday blamed the American troops' speedy pullout for the worsening violence in his country and said that his administration would now focus on protecting provincial...

Berlin: China and India have missed a UN deadline to submit fresh plans for cutting their greenhouse gas emissions in time for the global body to include their pledges in...