The International Criminal Court has issued arrest warrants for the Taliban's supreme leader and the head of Afghanistan's Supreme Court on charges of persecuting women and girls in the country. The ICC warrants, issued on Tuesday, accuse the (...)
NEW YORK — Saudi Arabia's Permanent Representative to the United Nations Ambassador Abdulaziz Alwasil reaffirmed the Kingdom's unwavering support for Afghanistan's security and stability.
Addressing a UN General Assembly session on the situation in (...)
The Pakistan army on Friday said it had killed at least 30 suspected militants during an attempted cross-border infiltration from Afghanistan into the tribal district of North Waziristan.
In an official statement, the military said the group was (...)
Russia has become the first nation to recognize the Taliban government of Afghanistan since it took power in 2021, announcing on Thursday it has accepted an ambassador from the Islamist group.
"We believe that the act of official recognition of the (...)
Germany wants to negotiate a direct agreement with the Taliban to take back Afghan nationals set for deportation, according to Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt.
"My idea is that we make agreements directly with Afghanistan to enable (...)
Pakistan will consider extending the deadline for 1.4 million Afghan refugees living legally in the country to return home, officials said on Monday.
Any extension approved by the government would be a relief for those who were previously ordered to (...)
A car bomb attack in Pakistan has killed at least 13 soldiers and injured civilians.
Pakistani officials said a suicide bomber drove a vehicle packed with explosives into a military convoy in the north-western tribal region of North Waziristan, near (...)
At least 13 Pakistani soldiers were killed and 24 others wounded, including 14 civilians, in a suicide bombing on Saturday targeting an army convoy in North Waziristan, near the border with Afghanistan, local media reported.
The attack occurred in (...)
As the weather in the Channel clears, the French police are struggling to halt a potentially record-breaking surge of people from reaching the UK in small boats organized by a growing network of smuggling gangs. Downing Street said on Tuesday the (...)
President Donald Trump signed a proclamation Wednesday evening to ban travel from several countries to the US, citing security risks.
The ban will fully restrict entry of nationals from 12 countries: Afghanistan; Myanmar, also known as Burma; Chad; (...)
A spate of arrests, diplomatic expulsions and public humiliations has plunged relations between war-torn Ukraine and its prickly Nato neighbor Hungary to a new low.
At the heart of the row are accusations that Viktor Orban's Fidesz government in (...)
Four people died and at least 20 were injured when a car bomb exploded near a market in Pakistan late on Sunday, a senior official has said.
The explosion hit the city of Qillah Abdullah in Balochistan province, close to the country's border with (...)
Australia's most-decorated living soldier Ben Roberts-Smith, has lost an appeal against a landmark defamation judgement which found he committed war crimes.
A judge in 2023 ruled that news articles alleging the Victoria Cross recipient had murdered (...)
The World Health Organization has declared a polio outbreak in Papua New Guinea and called for an "immediate" vaccination campaign.
Samples of the highly infectious virus were found in two healthy children during a routine screening in Lae, a (...)
Three energy-rich Gulf Arab nations are racing to turn their influence over Donald Trump into tangible gains with the president set to visit next week.
They have built personal ties with the president and collectively pledged trillions in US (...)
The Trump administration will admit more than two dozen white South Africans as refugees next week, despite the ongoing suspension of most U.S. refugee resettlement programs, officials and documents confirmed Friday.
According to a document obtained (...)
Pakistan's army chief, General Asim Munir, is not known for seeking the spotlight.
Yet in recent weeks, it has found him — not only in Pakistan, but across the border in India and in diplomatic capitals far beyond.
His remarks on Kashmir — made just (...)
Pakistani security forces have killed 54 militants who attempted to cross into the country from Afghanistan, the military said on Sunday, marking one of the deadliest such killings in recent years.
In a statement, the military said intelligence (...)
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth shared detailed plans about a military operation against the Houthis in Yemen on a second Signal group chat, this one on his personal phone and including his wife, lawyer and brother, three people familiar with the (...)
Russia's Supreme Court on Thursday lifted a ban on Afghanistan's ruling Taliban, a group that was designated as a terrorist organization more than two decades ago, the Associated Press reported.
The Taliban seized power in Afghanistan in August 2021 (...)
A medical charity working in Greece says it has diagnosed six children living in a migrant facility on the eastern island of Samos as suffering from malnutrition, the first time its doctors have made such a diagnosis since the facility opened in (...)
The World Food Programme said that the Trump administration had axed funding for life-saving schemes in 14 impoverished countries — despite previously pledging to spare vital aid.
The World Food Programme (WFP) has warned that the Trump (...)
Denmark strongly criticized US Vice President JD Vance on Saturday following his controversial comments accusing Copenhagen of neglecting Greenland during a visit to the US Pituffik Space Base in northwestern Greenland.
Danish Foreign Minister Lars (...)
The Taliban's supreme leader, Hibatullah Akhundzada, declared on Sunday that Afghanistan has no need for Western legal systems, asserting that Islamic sharia law is fully in effect and that democracy has ended in the country.
"There is no need for (...)
The United States has lifted bounties on three senior Taliban officials, including Interior Minister Sirajuddin Haqqani, who also leads the Haqqani network, a group long blamed for deadly attacks against Afghanistan's former Western-backed (...)
