The Taliban has claimed responsibility for a car bombing in eastern Afghanistan that officials say killed at least 14 soldiers when it targeted a military base in Nangarhar.
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has urged the United States to ramp up pressure on the Taliban and not to rush the withdrawal of more troops from Afghanistan.
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani says the United States will send a team to Kabul for consultations on efforts to bring peace to Afghanistan.
A Pakistani provincial government has appealed to the country's Supreme Court to review its decision to release the main suspect in the 2002 murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, after the United States and several rights groups expressed outrage over the decision.
The Pentagon says the Taliban are not complying with commitments the militant group reached with the United States last year under an Afghan peace accord.
A Taliban delegation has held talks with Russian officials in Moscow amid ongoing peace talks between the Afghan government and the militant group.
The leader of the Pakistan-based militant group, Lashkar-e Islam, has been killed in a mine blast in neighboring Afghanistan, according to Afghan and Pakistani security sources.
Transparency International says that the coronavirus pandemic has highlighted "widespread corruption" in countries across Eastern Europe and Central Asia, where it says "corrupt and authoritarian" leaders have reduced oversight of government spending and curtailed civil liberties.
The White House has expressed outrage that Pakistan’s Supreme Court ordered the release of a British-born man convicted for the 2002 murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl.
The U.S. envoy who brokered a deal with the Taliban last year has been asked to stay in his position, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on January 27.
A Taliban delegation has held talks with high-ranking Iranian officials in Tehran amid ongoing peace talks between the Afghan government and the militant group.
Pakistan will begin its COVID-19 inoculation drive next week, authorities say, with frontline health workers to be the first to receive jabs.
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