The United Nations is set to end travel ban exemptions for 13 Taliban officials, pending any deal by Security Council members on a possible extension, diplomats told AFP.

Salman Rushdie, the Indian-born novelist who suffered years of death threats as a result of his writing, was attacked on stage at an event in New York, a witness told Reuters.

China is planning to ramp up large-scale military drills around the self-ruled island of Taiwan…

Al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri has been killed in a CIA drone strike in Afghanistan’s capital, Kabul, United States President Joe Biden has said.

Japan’s influential politician and former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe succumbed to his injuries after being shot at an election campaign event.

An Afghan prisoner held at Guantanamo Bay for about 15 years without trial has been released from US custody, the Taliban government in Afghanistan and an international human rights group said.

As the Russia-Ukraine war continues past the 100-day mark, Türkiye says that there may again be grounds for talks between the two countries.

India has sent a team of foreign ministry officials to Afghanistan’s capital of Kabul for talks with senior members of the ruling Taliban, the ministry said on Thursday, the first such meeting since the chaotic US withdrawal last year.

The US imposed sanctions on an individual who acted as a finance official for the Palestinian group Hamas, a network…

Russian and Ukrainian negotiators are to sit down for a fresh round of talks next week in an attempt to…