Five new passenger planes arrived in Iran from a French-Italian manufacturer on August 4. The twin-engine ATR 72-600 turboprops landed in the northwestern city of Orumiyeh a day before the United States starts re-implementing sanctions that had been lifted under the 2015 nuclear deal. (IRINN via AP)
Dozens of Islamic State (IS) militants who surrendered to Afghan forces on July 31 have been moved to a compound in Shibirghan, in the northern province of Jowzjan, where they are now being held. RFE/RL filmed inside the compound on August 2.
Members of Pakistan's Awami National Party (ANP) protested on July 30 against the results of last week's parliamentary election, claiming the vote was rigged. Thousands rallied in Charsadda, Swat, and other cities in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Province.
If opposition leader Imran Khan does become prime minister of Pakistan, he will have completed the dramatic transition from international cricket star to the leader of a nuclear-armed country.
Supporters of former Pakistani cricket star Imran Khan celebrated on the streets of Lahore after his party was reported to be ahead in the general election late on July 25.
There were scenes in Quetta, southwest Pakistan, after a bombing outside a polling station. The blast killed dozens of people shortly after voting in parliamentary elections began on July 25.
Voters in Pakistan will go to the polls on July 25 to elect members of parliament and a new prime minister, after the ouster last year of Nawaz Sharif on corruption allegations.
Ambulances and security vehicles rushed to the scene of a deadly suicide bombing at Kabul airport on July 22 shortly after Afghan Vice President Abdul Rashid Dostum left the area following his arrival home from more than a year in self-imposed exile in Turkey. (Reuters)
A Pakistani candidate Ikramullah Gandapur from the party of prime ministerial hopeful and former cricket star Imran Khan was killed on June 22 in a suicide attack in Dera Ismail Khan that wounded four others, a police official said, just days ahead of June 25 general elections. (Radio Mashaal)
A deadly bomb blast hit a politician's convoy as it headed to an election rally in the northwestern city of Bannu on July 13. The politician, Akram Khan Durrani, said afterwards that the authorities had warned him about potential security threats.
British Prime Minister Theresa May said London would double its forces in Afghanistan in response to a request from NATO, as she arrived at the alliance's summit in Brussels on July 11.
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