Insurgencies

(Reuters) - The Taliban have captured Afghanistan's Lashkar Gah, capital of the southern province of Helmand, after two weeks of...

ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Kurdish militants launched a mortar attack on a Turkish military base in northern Iraq on Thursday, wounding...

KABUL (Reuters) - The Taliban have captured Afghanistan's second biggest city of Kandahar, officials said on Friday, in the most...

KABUL (Reuters) -The Taliban claimed control over two of Afghanistan's biggest cities on Thursday, according to media reports, as the...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.N. Security Council is discussing a draft statement that would condemn Taliban attacks on cities...

By Foo Yun Chee BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The Afghan government should engage with the Taliban to reach an inclusive settlement,...

By Josiane Kouagheu DOUALA (Reuters) - Clashes between herders and fishers in northern Cameroon have killed at least 12 people...

By Michelle Nichols NEW YORK (Reuters) - The United Nations said on Thursday it is particularly concerned about a shift...

BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany urged its citizens on Thursday to leave Afghanistan on scheduled flights as soon as they can...

MOGADISHU (Reuters) -The African Union's peacekeeping mission in Somalia said it was investigating reports that civilians were killed during a...

(Reuters) - The Taliban are a hardline Islamist movement in Afghanistan that has been fighting an insurgency against the Western-backed...

ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkey believes it would be beneficial for Kabul airport to remain open and the issue will "take...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia will give its ally Tajikistan $1.1 million to build a new outpost on the Tajik-Afghan border,...

BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany will not provide any financial support to Afghanistan if the Taliban takes over power in the...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. State Department on Wednesday said it is working to forge an international consensus behind the...

WASHINGTON/KABUL (Reuters) -Taliban fighters could isolate Afghanistan's capital in 30 days and possibly take it over within 90, a U.S....

(Reuters) - The Taliban on Wednesday denied targeting and killing civilians during an offensive against Afghan government troops, calling for...

(Corrects headline to say Turkey keen to run the airport rather than running) By Orhan Coskun ANKARA (Reuters) -Turkey is...

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) -Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan accused the United States of seeing his country as useful only in the...

(Reuters) - Taliban insurgents control an estimated 65% of Afghan territory, after making rapid advances against local forces who are...