The Taliban have killed or wounded more than 400 Afghan security personnel over the past week, the interior ministry said Sunday, accusing the insurgents of increasing attacks ahead of expected peace talks. Violence had dropped across much of Afghanistan since the Taliban announced a...

Algeria will further relax its coronavirus lockdown on Sunday, easing a curfew, allowing public transport to resume in the cities and reopening some more businesses, the government said on Saturday. The government will end the curfew in 19 provinces and shorten it in the remaining 29,...

Iran on Saturday confirmed 71 more fatalities from the novel coronavirus over the past 24 hours, bringing the nationwide death toll to 8,730. A further 2,410 people tested positive for COVID-19, raising the overall count to 184,955, Health Ministry spokesman Sima Sadat Lari said....

The Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) said the Syrian regime is actively appointing military leaders involved in crimes against humanity and war crimes to the highest levels of civilian leadership in the state. The newly released report contains details on at least 14,737...