U.S. and Taliban negotiators wrapped up their longest round of consecutive peace talks Tuesday with progress made but no agreement on when foreign troops might withdraw, multiple sources said. The 16 days of talks, in which the United States also sought assurances that Taliban insurgents...

Recent visits to both Pakistan and India by Saudi Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Adel al-Jubeir were intended to calm tensions between the two nuclear-armed Asian rivals, according to Saudi officials. In a Tuesday statement carried by the Saudi Press Agency (SPA), the Saudi Council...

Venezuela has given U.S diplomats 72 hours to leave the country, Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza said Tuesday. “U.S. diplomatic personnel must leave Venezuela in the next 72 hours,” Arreaza said on Twitter. If the U.S. wants to reestablish ties with Venezuela, this can only happen...

Afghan security forces on Tuesday claimed to have killed 31 Taliban militants in different operations a day after the rebels killed and captured almost an entire company of the army. Amid stalled peace process, violence has flare-up evidently across the country with both sides fighting...