South Asia

KABUL/ MOSCOW (Reuters) -Taliban officials said on Friday the Sunni Muslim insurgent group had taken control of 85% of territory...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Joe Biden has nominated Los Angeles mayor and climate advocate Eric Garcetti to be the U.S. ambassador...

By Polina Nikolskaya MOSCOW (Reuters) - A Taliban delegation in Moscow said on Friday that the group controlled over 85%...

KABUL (Reuters) - Taliban fighters seized control on Thursday of a key district in western Afghanistan that includes a major...

By Andrew MacAskill and William James LONDON (Reuters) -Most British soldiers have been pulled out of Afghanistan, ending Britain's official...

COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa on Thursday appointed his younger brother Basil Rajapaksa as finance minister, in...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - The Taliban's political office said on Thursday that the group did not seek to seize power in...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - A delegation of the Afghan Taliban's political office was in Moscow on Thursday, Russia's Interfax news agency...

LONDON (Reuters) - The head of Britain's armed forces warned there is the possibility that Afghanistan could be on a...

ANKARA (Reuters) -Turkish Defence Minister Hulusi Akar and his U.S. counterpart Lloyd Austin on Wednesday had a "constructive and positive...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden said he will speak on Afghanistan on Thursday, days after American troops pulled out...

By Aftab Ahmed and Nigam Prusty NEW DELHI (Reuters) -Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday appointed new federal ministers...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Tajikistan on Wednesday called on members of a Russian-led military bloc to help it deal with security...

HERAT/KABUL (Reuters) - Regional officials in northern Afghanistan said on Wednesday they had recaptured government buildings in a provincial capital...

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's Health Minister Harsh Vardhan has resigned ahead of a cabinet reshuffle planned by Prime Minister...

DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran on Wednesday told Taliban and Afghan government representatives it stood ready to help end the crisis...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian military helicopters based in Tajikistan fired air-to-surface missiles during a training exercise on Tuesday as Moscow...

KABUL (Reuters) - Afghan security personnel who fled into Tajikistan are being brought back to rejoin the fight against Taliban...

KABUL (Reuters) -The Taliban plan to present a written peace proposal to the Afghan government side as soon as next...

DUSHANBE, Tajikistan/KABUL (Reuters) -Tajikistan's president on Monday ordered the mobilisation of 20,000 military reservists to bolster the border with Afghanistan...