Afghanistan

Sirajuddin Haqqani, the acting interior minister of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) and a longtime leader of the so-called Haqqani network with a US bounty on his head, has appeared in front of the media for the first time.

Haqqani, nicknamed Khalifa, made the rare public appearance during a ceremony that saw the graduation of hundreds of...

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan will speak to Vladimir Putin by phone on Sunday to discuss Russia&s war in Ukraine, spokesman Ibrahim Kalin said, adding Turkey was ready to help resolve the crisis, Reuters reported.

NATO member Turkey shares a maritime border with Ukraine and Russia in the Black Sea and has good ties to both, but opposes...

Hong Kong reported 37,529 new coronavirus infections on Saturday and 150 deaths, as the city clings to a &zero-COVID& strategy despite spiralling cases that have spread through care homes and overwhelmed healthcare facilities, Reuters reported.

Many supermarket shelves were bare again on Saturday even as the government said there was...

The US is planning to complete in August the resettlement of Afghan refugees stranded by its withdrawal from the country last year, a senior State Department official has reportedly said on Friday.

So far, 85,000 Afghan refugees have been resettled in the US and thousands more remain in facilities in the United Arab Emirates, Albania, Mexico and...