The United States and India opened talks Wednesday in their latest bid to ramp up defense and political ties, but concerns over minority rights in the south Asian giant could mar the celebratory mood. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Defense Secretary Mark Esper began a day of talks in...

Fourteen people were killed and 13 were missing after Boko Haram jihadists attacked a fishing village in western Chad on Tuesday, government officials said. Violence from the Boko Haram insurgency started in Nigeria a decade ago, but has since spread to neighbouring countries Chad, Niger...

Iran's top security official said Wednesday the Islamic Republic opposed US negotiations with Afghanistan's Taliban, as the talks excluded the Afghan people and government. "Any strategy, any decision or plan without the participation of the Afghan people is wrong and doomed to failure,"...

Lebanon's Saad Hariri said Wednesday he would not seek to stay on as prime minister, ahead of much-delayed consultations to give the protest-wracked country a new government. Fifty days after unprecedented nationwide demonstrations against Lebanon's reviled political elite forced him to...