Afghanistan

At least one person confirmed to have COVID-19 has died in North Korea and hundreds of thousands have shown fever symptoms, state media said on Friday, offering hints at the potentially dire scale of country&s first confirmed outbreak of the pandemic.

The data represents an unprecedented admission of an &explosive& outbreak in a...

The U.N. Human Rights Council passed a resolution on Thursday to set up an investigation into possible war crimes by Russian troops in the Kyiv area and beyond, a move that Russia said amounted to political score-settling.

Members passed by an overwhelming majority (33 for, 2 against) a resolution to order a Commission of Inquiry to investigate...

Amir Khan Muttaqi, acting Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA), held a video conference with Sardor Umurzakov, Deputy Prime-Minister and Minister of Investments and Foreign Trade of Uzbekistan on Wednesday afternoon, to discuss strengthening trade and transit relations.

According to the Afghan ministry of foreign...

The United States has the capability of conducting strike operations in Afghanistan if a threat emanates from the country&s territory, Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley said on Wednesday.

In a prepared testimony for the House Appropriations Committee, Milley said: &We do maintain surveillance (in Afghanistan) and I...