The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) has confirmed that one of its soldiers was killed and another one wounded on Sunday when Iranian border forces opened fire along the border fence in Nimroz province.

The Nimroz department of Information and Culture said in a statement the incident occurred when the Iranian border forces fired at an IEA...

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A Chinese rocket fell back to Earth on Saturday over the Indian Ocean but NASA said Beijing had not shared the &specific trajectory information& needed to know where possible debris might fall.

US Space Command said the Long March 5B rocket re-entered over the Indian Ocean at approximately 16:45 GMT, but referred questions about...

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Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said Afghanistan is still facing challenges and countries need to encourage the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) to establish a comprehensive and inclusive government.

He also called for multilateral coordination and consensus among countries to deal with and improve the situation in Afghanistan.

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A 17-member delegation of tribal elders arrived in Kabul on Saturday to resume peace talks with the Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP).

This comes after a team of senior religious scholars returned to Pakistan this week after negotiations in Afghanistan with the TTP leadership, Dawn News reported.

The eight-member ulema delegation was led by Mufti...

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The death toll has risen to 56 from devastating flash floods that have wreaked havoc across Iran in recent days, Iranian officials confirmed. 

On Saturday, the country&s leader Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei issued a message calling on officials to take the required measures to repair the damage caused by the floods.   

The...

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The meeting of foreign ministers of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) was hosted by Vladimir Narov, minister of Foreign Affairs of Uzbekistan, and attended by the foreign ministers of Russia, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, India and Pakistan, and Zhang Ming, the Secretary General of the SCO, on Friday in Tashkent.

The political and...

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