Two Afghan friends were incarcerated together at Guantanamo Bay, but they chose starkly divergent paths after release ?- one became an Islamic State jihadist, the other joined the US-led government fight to crush the group. Haji Ghalib and Abdul Rahim Muslim Dost, whose friendship coalesced...

Talks on consolidating the Syrian cease-fire held in Kazakhstan this year helped jumpstart the United Nations-led peace negotiations in Geneva, Russian President Vladimir Putin said Monday. At the first round of the talks in the Kazakh capital Astana in January, Russia and Iran, allies of...

 Iran's navy has test-fired the latest versions of the Nasr and Dehlaviyeh missiles during military exercises in the Gulf, local media reported on Monday. "The latest naval cruise missile called Nasr was test-fired during Velayat 95 naval manoeuvres in the southern waters of the...

Indonesian police shot dead an attacker during a firefight at a government office Monday after a small bomb was set off in a public park. No one apart from the attacker was hurt in the incident in the major city of Bandung on Java island, which police said was linked to a "terrorist...