The United States says one of its soldiers has been killed and two others wounded when a joint U.S.-Afghan mission in Afghanistan's troubled Helmand Province came under attack.
Afghan officials say the siege near India's consulate in northern Afghanistan has ended after all the attackers were killed.
Afghan security forces are battling to flush out militants holed up in a building near the Indian consulate in the northern city of Mazar-e Sharif.
Fighting between security forces and gunmen was reported to have continued into the early hours of January 4 around the Indian consulate in the northern Afghan city of Mazar-i-Sharif.
Saudi Arabia has said it's cutting diplomatic ties with Iran, in the latest fallout to erupt after Riyadh’s execution of an opposition Shi'ite cleric prompted outraged protesters to storm the Saudi Embassy in Tehran.
The Taliban has denied that it held talks with Russian officials about efforts to combat Islamic State (IS) militants in Afghanistan as a British newspaper reported that President Vladimir Putin had met the group's leader earlier this year.
An earthquake with its epicenter in northeastern Afghanistan has killed one person in neighboring Pakistan.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has landed at Pakistan’s Lahore airport, the first visit by an Indian premier since 2004.
Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has vowed to avenge the deaths of the 122 schoolchildren killed last year in Peshawar by Taliban gunmen.
Reports say at least 23 people have been killed and more than 50 wounded by a bomb that exploded at a market in Pakistan near the Afghan border.
Afghan security forces have killed all four insurgents involved in an attack on a guest house near the Spanish embassy in Kabul, Afghan officials said December 12.
There are signs that Pakistan and Afghanistan are likely to go ahead with a second round of talks between the Afghan Taliban and Kabul as part of a new push to end the Afghan conflict through a negotiated settlement and cultivating a cooperative bilateral relationship between the two neighbors.
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