Iraq's Kurdish leader said on Thursday that there was no turning back on a bid to achieve an independent Kurdish state, but he would pursue it through dialogue with Baghdad and regional powers to avoid conflict.
Masoud Barzani, President of...
The United States cautioned on Wednesday it was ready to use force if need be to stop North Korea's nuclear missile program but said it preferred global diplomatic action against Pyongyang for defying world powers by test launching a...
Zafar Achakzai, a local journalist from Capital city of Quetta, Balochistan, was released by a local court today.
Mr. Achakzai, a young journalist, went missing a day before Muslim festival of Eid and was only produced before the court four...
A coal miner was killed in Marwarh today when unknown armed persons tried to kidnap him. Marwarh, in the suburbs of Quetta, has one of the largest number of coal mines in Balochistan.
According to details, a group of armed...
A Pakistani forces vehicle was badly damaged as it hit a landmine blast in Dera Bugti. The incident happened in Peer Koh area of Dera Bugti.
According to reports from the area, Pakistani Army vehicle was on a routine patrol...
US-backed Syrian forces have breached the wall at Raqqa's Old City as they try to retake the city from so-called Islamic State, the US military says.
It says the coalition had helped the advance of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF)...
Turkmen-Afghan agreements were today signed in Ashgabat following high-level talks between the two countries, said the Turkmen Dovlet Habarlary state news service.
Presidents of Turkmenistan and Afghanistan, Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov and Mohammad Ashraf Ghani, signed a joint statement on July 3.
In...
Pakistani security forces have arrested two elderly persons from Awaran in Balochistan.
Kareem s/o Bahadur and Abdul Qadir s/o Gul Dad, who both are older than 60 years of age, were arrested today by Pakistani forces in Jhau, Awaran. Both...
By Stephen Kalin and Maher Chmaytelli | MOSUL/ERBIL, IRAQ
Islamic State fighters were battling to hold on to the last few streets under their control in the Old City of Mosul on Monday, making a doomed last stand in their former Iraqi stronghold.
In fierce fighting,...
Eighteen people were killed when a tour bus burst into flames after colliding with a truck on a motorway in the German state of Bavaria on Monday, police said.
Thirty people were injured, some seriously, in the crash, which occurred...
