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The German government was set to pass a new workplace coronavirus hygiene ordinance on Wednesday but rejected the suggestion to give…

“The Taliban have started to turn the internet on and off in some parts of Kabul,” said Habib Khan Totakhil, an Afghan journalist…

Just a few days ago, US President Joe Biden picked up the phone to thank the Emir of Qatar, Tamim bin Hamad Al…

Qatar’s first public election of a consultative assembly is set to take place. The Arab state’s ruling Emir Sheikh Tamim…

Zaw Min (name changed to protect his identity) is a construction worker in his 30s from the Yangon suburb of…

A series of blasts triggered by a fire at a military base in southern Kazakhstan killed nine servicemen and wounded…

In 1991, photographer Kirk Weddle asked a friend to bring his four-month baby to a photo shoot at a swimming…

Over a week after the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan’s capital Kabul, its residents are reeling from a severe shortage of cash…

The United Nations’ top human rights official, Michelle Bachelet, on Tuesday said her office had received credible reports of grave…

A recent editorial in Al-Alam, an Iranian-owned Arabic-language publication, warned people not to trust the Americans the way the Afghan people did. The people…

The trip from the center of the Lithuanian capital, Vilnius, to the refugee reception center in Rudninkai takes about 40 minutes. It’s…

The Taliban have begun rounding up Afghans on a blacklist of people with suspected links to the previous Afghan administration,…

An assault on a convoy traveling through the north of Burkina Faso killed 47 people on Wednesday, the government of the western…

A massive earthquake that hit last week has left Haiti “on its knees,” Prime Minister Ariel Henry said on Wednesday, as…

The Taliban have been handed a huge financial and geopolitical edge in relations with the world’s biggest powers as the militant group seizes…

They call themselves “students” ― that’s the verbatim translation of the word “Taliban” from Pashto. Today, the name of the Islamist…

The US and the rest of the international community scrambled on Monday to react to the shocking fall of Kabul to the…

The 67-year-old German-Iranian activist Nahid Taghavi is still in detention after being arrested in the Iranian capital in October 2020. Last…

Iran has been beefing up its military presence along its border with Afghanistan since early May when US-led foreign troops…

Earlier this week, hundreds of Moroccans protested the death of Yassine Lekhmidi, a 25-year-old man in the city of Sidi…