A spokesman for the Taliban government says their security forces killed two militants from the Islamic State group and detained a third in an overnight operation in the Afghan capital of Kabul
Hundreds of Afghan refugees facing extreme delays in the approval of U.S. visas are protesting in Pakistan’s capital on, as an American program to help relocate at-risk Afghans fleeing Taliban rule stalls
Police in Sri Lanka have fired tear gas and water cannons to disperse protesters angry over a decision to postpone local elections after the government said it cannot finance them because of the country’s crippling economic crisis
Iran’s currency has fallen to a new record low, plunging to 600,000 to the dollar for the first time
Police say a bombing at a crowded bazaar in southwestern Pakistan killed at least five people and wounded 16
A meeting of finance chiefs of the Group of 20 leading economies has ended without a consensus, with Russia and China objecting to the description of the war in Ukraine in a final document
Officials say the normal trade and movement of people between Pakistan and Afghanistan has fully resumed after the two sides reopened a key border crossing that was shut down a week ago by Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers
Chancellor Olaf Scholz says Germany wants to get India to support, or at least not block, Western efforts to isolate Russia for waging a devastating war against Ukraine
Officials say two Pakistani brothers who were held by the United States at the Guantanamo Bay military prison for two decades have been freed and returned home
