A delegation of the militant Taliban group has arrived in China for two days of intra-Afghan peace talks with representatives of the Afghan government, according to Australian-based policy research center Foreign Brief.
The United States says Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of the Islamic State (IS) extremist group, has been killed in a lightning U.S. raid in northwestern Syria after being tracked for several days.
NATO has reaffirmed its commitment to the long-running Afghanistan mission and said it will ensure its deployment there remains "sustainable."
The Central Asia-South Asia-1000 (CASA-1000) project aims to bring massive amounts of electricity from Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan to Afghanistan and Pakistan.
A Pakistani judge has ordered the father of exiled human rights activist Gulalai Ismail be held in detention while awaiting trial for supporting of a movement that campaigns for civil rights for ethnic Pashtuns, his lawyer says.
The Pakistani Supreme Court has suspended a ruling by the high court in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province that could have led to the release of thousands of victims of forced disappearances and indefinite detentions.
China is organizing talks among Afghanistan's rival factions as part of efforts to end years of war after negotiations between the Taliban and the United States broke down last month.
The UN, the European Union, as well as a number of Western countries, including the United States, say they remain committed to reaching a "sustainable peace agreement" that ends the war in Afghanistan.
A top Afghan presidential contender has complained after two police officers slept in an election data center in Kabul where results from last month's first round of presidential polls are being collated -- supposedly to escape chilly weather.
The Pakistani government appears to be employing a range of tactics to prevent a major opposition protest aimed at toppling the administration of Prime Minister Imran Khan from reaching the capital, Islamabad.
Fifteen police officers have been killed in fighting in Afghanistan's northern province of Kunduz, a provincial council member says.
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