Afghan security forces on August 25 killed at least two gunmen who attacked the American University in Kabul, ending a 10-hour assault on the compound that left at least 13 people dead.
Many Afghans who recently left Pakistan because of police brutality and government pressure are now discovering their war-torn homeland is not welcoming, either.
Journalists in Iran are sounding the alarm over a government-drafted media regulation bill that is expected to be sent to the parliament for approval soon, after a two-year delay.
Afghan forces are trying to reverse recent Taliban gains in Afghanistan’s northeastern Kunduz Province, which borders Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.
The killing of a generation of lawyers in Pakistan’s southwestern Balochistan Province in a suicide attack has paused the wheels of justice in the vast region reeling from separatist and Islamist violence and a harsh military crackdown.
Thousands of laid-off foreign workers are refusing to leave labor camps after being denied wages for months amid poor conditions as the Saudi government defends its offer of free flights home.
Highlights of the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro on August 21, 2016
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says that a child suicide bomber carried out the August 20 attack on a wedding party in the southeastern city of Gaziantep that left 51 people dead and dozens of others wounded.
Afghan forces have retaken a district in the northeastern Kunduz Province that had been seized earlier by Taliban forces.
Independence Day fans discord over a controversial monarch who overthrew one of Afghanistan's heroes of independence.
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