Afghan, international and Taliban forces will observe a seven-day period of reduced violence in Afghanistan beginning at midnight, an Afghan official and Taliban leaders said Friday. The agreement was struck during protracted negotiations between U.S. and Taliban representatives that began...

China reported an uptick in new cases of coronavirus Friday, boosted by more than 200 people testing positive for the disease in two prisons outside of Hubei province, the epicenter of the outbreak. As international authorities tried to stop the outbreak in China from becoming a global...

Khalifa Haftar, Libya's eastern military commander, said he would be ready for a ceasefire if Turkish and Syrian mercenaries left the country and Ankara stopped supplying weapons to Libya's internationally recognised government in Tripoli, RIA reported. The internationally recognised...

The Maysan province in Iraq decided Thursday to close its border with Iran because of fears of the spread of the new coronavirus in Iraq. Local Iraqi media reported the Ministry of Health decided to prevent Iranian citizens from entering the country until further notice. The measure...