At least 11 people have been killed after a bomber detonated an explosives-packed truck close to an Afghan check point in Helmand Province.

‘After many troubling years, we now need to go beyond the usual stale rhetoric,’ Afghanistan’s Abdullah says.

Turkey says it may soon resume talks with Greece over sea dispute, warning that EU leaders meeting will not help if they threaten to sanction Ankara.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says Turkey is open to “constructive” dialog with Greece in a dispute over energy exploration rights in the eastern Mediterranean Sea.

If elected president in November, Joe Biden would have all US sanctions on Iran stay in place, including the ones enacted under President Donald Trump. That’s what many Iranians believe. They say there will be no talks with either Trump or Biden until all unilateral sanctions imposed by the US on Iran are lifted.

US special envoy for Afghanistan Zalmay Khalilzad arrives in Islamabad to hold talks with Pakistani officials regarding the Afghan peace process.

Afghan government and the Taliban militant group kick off the second day of Inter-Afghan peace talks in the Qatari capital Doha amid violent clashes in war-wracked country.

The EU warns Serbia and Kosovo over their recent decision to move their embassies in the occupied Palestinian territories to Jerusalem al-Quds.

Turkey accuses Greece of shunning dialog and lying after Athens denied it had agreed to NATO-brokered talks aimed at de-escalating tensions in disputed waters in the eastern Mediterranean.

‘This is for Afghans to reconcile, and our task is that of facilitator,’ the Pakistani foreign minister said.