Insurgencies

By Merdie Nzanga and Greg Savoy (Reuters) - An Afghan singer who has used her international fame to amplify calls...

By Suleiman Al-Khalidi AMMAN (Reuters) - Russian forces moved into an opposition enclave in the Syrian city of Deraa on...

By Rupam Jain (Reuters) - Ashraf Haidari, an economist at the Aghan finance ministry, was waiting anxiously at home when...

(Reuters) -The Taliban expect foreign evacuations from Kabul to be completed by the end of the month, the Islamist group's...

By Ned Parker and Michelle Nichols NEW YORK (Reuters) - Taliban fighters have taken over some U.N. compounds in Afghanistan,...

By Stephanie Nebehay and Emma Farge GENEVA (Reuters) -The U.N. human rights chief said on Tuesday that she had received...

CAIRO (Reuters) - Afghanistan's Taliban has appointed former Guantanamo detainee mullah Abdul Qayyum Zakir as acting defense minister, Qatari based...

(Reuters) - Millions of Afghans could soon face starvation due to the combination of conflict, drought and the coronavirus pandemic,...

GENEVA (Reuters) -China's envoy told the U.N. Human Rights Council on Tuesday that the U.S. army and the militaries of...

ZURICH (Reuters) - Switzerland has evacuated 292 people from Afghanistan, Foreign Minister Ignazio Cassis said on Tuesday, while Switzerland would...

DUESSELDORF, Germany (Reuters) - An Afghan mayor who fled to Germany said she would work in her host country to...

By Diadie Ba DAKAR (Reuters) -Hissene Habre, the former strongman president of Chad and security ally of the West during...

GENEVA (Reuters) - U.N. human rights chief Michelle Bachelet is to report back in the September-October session on the situation...

AMMAN (Reuters) - An explosion at a training camp for jihadist fighters in opposition-held northwest Syria killed at least 10...

By Nafisa Eltahir and Aidan Lewis CAIRO (Reuters) -The World Health Organization only has enough supplies in Afghanistan to last...

BOSASO, Somalia (Reuters) -Al Shabaab fighters stormed a military base in the centre of Somalia on Tuesday and recaptured a...

GENEVA (Reuters) - A senior Afghan diplomat from the deposed government on Tuesday called for accountability for Taliban actions, describing...

KABUL/WASHINGTON (Reuters) -With thousands of desperate Afghans and foreigners massed at Kabul's airport in the hope of fleeing Afghanistan's new...

By Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Leaders of the G7 advanced economies are expected to pledge unity on whether or...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, speaking to reporters on Monday after a briefing by intelligence...