Afghan officials say a car bomb in central Afghanistan has killed three people and wounded 72 others, many of them students attending a nearby school. Hasan Raza Yousafi, a provincial council member, says the target of Sunday's suicide attack was an intelligence unit compound in Ghazni, the...

U.S. and Taliban officials decided on Saturday to put their ongoing peace talks on hold for two days to allow for a meeting between rival Afghan groups to be held in Qatar, a Taliban official said. The warring sides started a seventh round of peace talks last week, aiming to hammer out a...

Islamic State fighters claimed responsibility on Saturday for a deadly overnight attack in a mosque in central province of Ghazni in Afghanistan. At least two people were killed and 20 others sustained injuries as a bomb planted by the hardline Islamist militants inside the Mohammadiya...

Turkey's president has met with the head of Libya's U.N.-recognized government, following heightened tensions between Turkey and forces loyal to a rival Libyan authority. In a statement by his office Friday, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan reiterated his support for Prime Minister Fayez...