Afghanistan's Chief Executive Dr. Abdullah Abdullah met Indian External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj on Thursday to build upon multifaceted bilateral cooperation. Dr. Abdullah arrived in New Delhi on Thursday to hold talks with the Indian leadership and to inaugurate the...
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has today said the Indian government accorded priority to national security and asserted that India was capable of defending itself in all spheres. Mr. Modi's comments in his speech on Indian Independence Day came in the...
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 pro-Russian rebel leader of a breakaway region in eastern Ukraine proposed on Tuesday replacing Ukraine with a new federal state, in comments that could further undermine a 2015 peace deal that is already faltering. Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko rejected...
The United States, Russia and Jordan have reached a ceasefire and "de-escalation agreement" in southwestern Syria, one of the combat zones in a six-year-old civil war, U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said on Friday. The ceasefire will go into...
North Korea fired a missile on Friday in an unusual late-night test launch, and details from Japanese, South Korean and U.S. officials suggested it was an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM). Following the launch, South Korean President Moon Jae-in ordered discussions...
China has again extended by three months its technical hold on the US, France and UK- backed proposal to list terrorist organisation Jaish e Mohammad (JeM) chief and Pathankot terror attack mastermind Masood Azhar as a designated terrorist by...
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...
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)...
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...