Afghanistan

China added a laboratory to its permanent space station Monday as it moves toward completing the structure in coming months.

The Wentian lab module was launched from the Wenchang space base on the tropical island province of Hainan on Sunday with a large crowd of amateur photographers and space enthusiasts watching, AP reported.

After 13 hours of...

Afghanistan&s Ministery of Industry and Commerce said Sunday talks have been held with representatives of the pharmaceutical and medical sectors, who have in turn called for a chamber to be established.

Discussions were held at a meeting chaired by Nooruddin Azizi, acting Minister of Industry and Commerce, along with representatives of the...

Abdul Wase, the Director General of the Prime Minister&s Office, met with a number of Hindu and Sikh members on Sunday and assured them their problems would be resolved.

Wase told the representatives of the Hindu - Sikh Council that: &You are a part of the Afghan nation and your problems will be taken care of.&

The...

As the one-year anniversary of the American withdrawal from Afghanistan approaches, US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan said this week that keeping American troops in Afghanistan &could not be justified& and no amount of American military presence led to victory after 20 years.

&It had to come to an end,& he said at...