U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, on a surprise visit to Afghanistan Monday, promised support for President Ashraf Ghani's bid to start peace talks with the Taliban and repeated the United States itself would be willing to join the talks. The visit, coming at the end of a tour of...

The remains of 35 Srebrenica genocide victims were placed on a truck laden with flowers in the Bosnian city of Visoko on Monday morning for their final journey to a cemetery. The victims will be buried in the village of Potocari, northwest of the city of Srebrenica, on Wednesday to mark...

An Iraqi military spokesman says an airstrike has killed 20 Daesh (ISIS) militants outside the northern city of Mosul. In a statement issued on Monday, Brig. Gen. Yahya Rasool says the slain militants were hiding inside a tunnel in Badoush area northwest of Mosul. Rasool says...

Iraq's election commission began Monday the manual recount for more ballots from parliamentary elections held two months ago that were marred by allegations of fraud and irregularities. Iraq's May 12 balloting was the country's fourth national elections since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion...