Pakistani officials say at least nine people have been killed and dozens of others injured in a suicide attack on a church in the city of Quetta on December 17. The extremist group Islamic State (IS) claimed responsibility for the attack in Bethel Memorial Methodist Church. (RFE/RL's Radio Mashaal)
The cold weather in Kabul has caused the death of several homeless drug addicts. The Afghan Health and Counternarcotics Ministries started a joint campaign on December 16 to gather the drug addicts for treatment, as temperatures plunged to minus 3 degrees Celsius. (RFE/RL's Radio Free Afghanistan)
Saffron is the world's most expensive spice -- and it promises to be a lucrative crop for thousands of Afghans. The government is supporting a growing saffron industry, offering start-up assistance to farmers trying to get out of the opium poppy business.
Hundreds of refugees and migrants have been sleeping rough in frigid temperatures in Serbia, after refusing official accommodation. (RFE/RL's Balkan Service)
The international airport in the Kazakh capital, Astana, was renamed this year in honor of the president, Nursultan Nazarbaev, who has led the country for nearly three decades.
Muslim activists organized protests for a second straight day around the world to protest U.S. President Donald Trump's decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. (RFE/RL's Radio Mashall and Radio Free Afghanistan)
Muslim activists in Pakistan gathered to protest U.S. President Donald Trump's decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.
U.S. President Donald Trump recognized Jerusalem as Israel's capital and ordered the U.S. State Department to begin preparations for a new embassy there.
Kyrgyz students held a march to raise awareness about Islamist extremism and radicalization in the country. (RFE/RL's Kyrgyz Service)
The CIA director has said that he sent a letter to influential Iranian commander Qassem Soleimani earlier this year, warning him that the U.S. would respond if Iran-backed forces operating in Iraq attacked its interests in the country. (Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation & Institute via AP)
Pakistani Taliban gunmen disguised in burqas stormed the campus of an agriculture university in Peshawar, killing several people. (RFE/RL's Radio Mashaal)
The city of Berezniki was built slap on top of a potash mine, and is slowly being engulfed by it. Giant sinkholes appear without warning, swallowing offices and ripping apart housing. (Current Time TV)
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