The United Nations Security Council approved on Friday the appointment of veteran diplomat Jan Kubis as the U.N. Libya envoy, diplomats said, nearly a year after the last mediator stepped down.
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres had proposed (...)
President-elect Joe Biden is nominating New York emergency department commissioner Deanne Criswell to serve as the Federal Emergency Management Agency administrator and has tapped former CIA deputy director David Cohen to return to the agency in the (...)
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Tuesday accused Iran of having secret ties with the al-Qaeda network and imposed new sanctions on several senior Iranian officials.
Pompeo's comments come just a week before the Trump administration leaves office (...)
The Afghan government has been demanding a halt in fighting and observing truce as peace talks continue in Doha amid increasing militancy and conflict in Afghanistan.
Faridon Khwazoon, the spokesman for High Council of National Reconciliation, who (...)
A roadside bomb exploded in Afghanistan's capital Sunday, killing at least three people in a vehicle, the latest attack to take place even as government negotiators are in Qatar to resume peace talks with the Taliban.
Tariq Arian, spokesman for the (...)
As of 6 January, Egypt has been among the countries with the highest reported number of coronavirus-related deaths in the Eastern Mediterranean region, after Iran, Iraq and Pakistan, the World Health Organisation's Regional Office for the Eastern (...)
2020 has not been, by all accounts, an ordinary year in human history. There were no global, regional or economic disasters. There was no cold war that made the international order descend into chaos. To the whole world's great surprise, it was a (...)
Pakistan on Saturday arrested a man accused of being a leader of an Islamist militant group blamed by the United States and India for the 2008 Mumbai attacks, a counter-terrorism official said.
The arrest is in relation to terrorism financing, the (...)
Islamic State group claimed responsibility for an attack on Sunday that killed 11 miners from Pakistan's minority Shia Hazaras in Baluchistan province.
The attack took place early on Sunday morning in the Mach area of Bolan district around 100 kms (...)
An Afghan journalist was shot dead in a car ambush in the central province of Ghor, the fifth media professional to be killed in the country in two months, officials said on Saturday.
Bismellah Adel Aimaq, 28, the editor-in-chief of Sada-e-Ghor (...)
Arifullah Khan had just administered another polio vaccine when the gunfire blasted from the nearby hills.
“It happened so suddenly. There was so much gunfire it felt like an explosion,” he said, recalling details of the attack five years ago in (...)
President Donald Trump has pardoned 15 people, including a pair of congressional Republicans who were strong and early supporters, a 2016 campaign official ensnared in the Russia probe and former government contractors convicted in a 2007 massacre (...)
The United Arab Emirates' top diplomat has publicly acknowledged a so-far unexplained ban on visitors from Pakistan, which travel agents say also targets tourists and laborers from a dozen Muslim-majority countries amid the pandemic and the UAE's (...)
Donald Trump will leave the White House without achieving his slogan during the 2016 presidential campaign: “Make America Great Again” (MAGA). Joe Biden will enter the White House with the slogan: Make America United Again. Biden will likely leave (...)
The decade that is coming to an end opened in Egypt with a terrible explosion at the Church of the Saints in Alexandria. The bombing might as well have been planned as a harbinger of the profound disruptions to come. By 25 January 2011 people had (...)
A car bomb blast that rocked Afghanistan's capital Sunday morning killed at least eight people, according to the Afghan Interior Ministry.
Tariq Arian, spokesman for the Interior Ministry, said that more than 15 others were wounded in the attack (...)
Killings by small, magnetic bombs slapped under vehicles are unnerving Afghan officials, activists and journalists, who blame the Taliban for the attacks that are increasing despite peace talks aimed at ending two decades of war.
At least 10 (...)
A Taliban team, led by the co-founder of the insurgent movement, arrived Wednesday in Islamabad for talks with Pakistani government leaders amid growing calls for a reduction in violence in Afghanistan.
Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar and his delegation (...)
It is an arduous task to describe 2020, whether with a simple adjective or an even a long article, for this has been truly an unprecedented year for those who have witnessed or survived its ordeals. 2020 was the year in which an economic depression (...)
The deputy governor of the Afghan capital of Kabul was killed on Tuesday in a bomb attack on his car as he went to work, security officials said.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the blast that killed Mahboobullah Mohebi as he was (...)
Peace talks between the Afghan government and Taliban insurgents will resume in early January as the warring sides take a break after reaching agreement on procedural ground rules for sustaining their dialogue to end the war.
The talks between the (...)
Afghan government negotiators and the Taliban have agreed to have Islamic law and teachings guide them in peace talks now underway in Qatar, according to a document obtained Thursday.
The document details a 21-point list of rules and procedures for (...)
The leaders of Iran and Afghanistan on Thursday inaugurated the first railway link between the two countries, expressing hope it would enhance trade links across the region.
The 140-kilometer (90-mile) line running from eastern Iran into western (...)
I hope Arab readers of former president Barack Obama's recently published memoirs were not too hasty to jump ahead to his sections on the Middle East and events of the Arab Spring. The subject is extremely important, of course, and we should (...)
US President Donald Trump has ordered the withdrawal of nearly all US troops from Somalia helping local forces battle al-Shabab and Islamic State militants, the Pentagon has said.
US officials said some of the troops would move to neighbouring (...)
