A second round of four-country talks aimed at reviving peace negotiations with the Taliban was held in Kabul Monday, even as the insurgents wage an unprecedented winter campaign of violence across Afghanistan.
About 12 people were killed and 13 others wounded after a suicide bombing rocked near the house of a tribal elder in eastern Afghan town of Jalalabad on Sunday morning, sources said.
The Indonesian police have arrested 12 people allegedly linked with Thursday's suicide bombing at the capital that killed seven people including five and injured 20 others, and identified five bombers on Saturday, senior police officers said here.
Indonesia's Jakarta police chief Tito Karnavian said terror group Islamic State (IS) was the perpetrator of the suicide bombing in Jakarta on Thursday that killed seven people and injured 20 others.
U.S. President Barack Obama on Tuesday night called on Congress to authorize the use of military force against the extremist group of Islamic State (IS).
Prioritizing and focusing on key issues is crucial as China enters its third year of a campaign to deepen reforms aimed at building a moderately prosperous society.
The Myanmar military has vowed to continue launching offensive against the ethnic Arakan Army following recent clashes with the armed group for more than 10 times, the military Myawaddy media reported Friday.
Motorcycle-borne masked gunmen opened fire on a tourist bus of Arab-Israeli citizens and a hotel close to the Giza pyramids in Egypt during a rally of Muslim Brotherhood supporters today, but the tourists escaped unhurt.
About 100 Pakistanis, including women, have travelled to Syria and Iraq to join the Islamic State since the rise of the dreaded terror group in the Middle East.
Nigeria's fight to end the Boko Haram insurgency with billions of U.S. dollars committed is yielding results this year, but the Islamist group has proved to be a hard nut to crack.
"In the past it's always been just Christmas eve that was the super romantic day of the year but as Christmas falls on a Friday this year, meaning the next day is a day off, many are focusing all their attention on the day itself and it's mortifying," explained Tomo Hasegawa, a 29-year-old singleton working for a trading company near Tokyo's Akasaka.
The Japanese government on Thursday opted to neither confirm or deny whether a Japanese journalist who has allegedly been kidnapped in Syria is being held by an armed group.
The Japanese government is seeking information after reports a Japanese freelance journalist is being held hostage in Syria and has been threatened with execution, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said on Thursday.
Japan's newly-enacted security laws will be challenged as being unconstitutional by a contingency of legal experts who will file lawsuits with district courts across the country, a spokesperson for the group said Monday.
A group of 320 surfing Santas in Australia have set a new world record at the nation's most popular beach in a display that is quintessentially an Australian Christmas.
Downing Street announced on Wednesday that David Cameron and other government ministers would start using the word "Daesh" when referring to the terror group.
Taliban supremo Mullah Akhtar Mansour has died of injuries, Afghan officials confirmed on Friday.
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