Taliban and Afghan government forces clashed across Afghanistan hours after the start of long-awaited peace talks in Doha on Saturday, officials said, underscoring the uphill challenge of settling a 19-year insurgency. Talks between the two sides were to begin shortly after a U.S.-Taliban...

 The death toll in Turkey due to the novel coronavirus reached 7,056 on Sunday, rising by 57 people in the last 24 hours, data from the Health Ministry showed. The total number of cases in the country rose by 1,527 on Sunday, for a total of 291,162 cases, the data showed, with 258,833...

The Gulf state of Oman on Sunday welcomed a US-sponsored agreement between Bahrain and Israel to normalize their relations.  “Oman welcomes the initiative taken by Bahrain in part of its sovereignty rights,” the government said in a statement cited by the official news agency....

Greece said Sunday it hoped thousands of asylum seekers left homeless by fires at Europe's largest migrant camp could be rehoused within a week to end a crisis that has seen clashes with police. Asylum-seekers -- including the elderly and very young children -- have been sleeping rough on...