Afghanistan's former president says he had just minutes to decide to flee in the hours before the Taliban took control of the capital in August
Iranian state television says Tehran has launched a rocket with a satellite carrier bearing three devices into space, though it’s unclear if any object entered orbit around the Earth
Libya has failed to hold its first presidential election as planned this month
Middle East countries have for years looked abroad, mainly to the West, for answers to regional problems
Turkish media reports say police have detained a man who wounded one person during a knife attack on a branch of a pro-Kurdish party in Istanbul
Yemen's Iran-backed rebels say they're temporarily allowing U.N. humanitarian flights to land at the airport in the capital of Sanaa
Iran is insisting that the United States and its allies promise to allow Tehran to export its crude as negotiations on restoring the tattered nuclear deal are to resume in Vienna
Bulgarian shoppers are crossing Turkey’s western border in packed cars and buses, taking advantage of a declining Turkish lira to fuel their own shopping sprees
The Taliban have dissolved Afghanistan’s two election commissions as well as state ministries for peace and parliamentarian affairs
