A senior Taliban figure has urged the group's leader to scrap education bans on Afghan women and girls, saying there is no excuse for them, in a rare public rebuke of government policy.

Qatar faced criticism over its mediation between Israel and Hamas, but after more than a year of war in Gaza, the tiny ...

Outgoing Secretary of State Antony Blinken told The Associated Press that he hopes the incoming Trump administration will ...

While the United States tries to spy on one of the hardest targets, Burns has also tried to reopen a dialogue with Beijing, ...

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin will bid farewell to the forces and personnel he has led through a tumultuous term that had ...

The intent of jihadist state actors such as Iran, Syria and Iraq, and non-state actors Al-Qaeda, ISIS, Taliban, Hamas, the Houthis, and Hezbollah, appears to be the imposition of Sharia law upon ...

In 2022, President Joe Biden awarded Major Non-NATO Ally status to Qatar, notwithstanding that country’s support for the Taliban, Hamas, and a host of other Islamist, extremist, and terrorist groups.

Israeli airstrikes killed at least 18 people in the Gaza Strip on Thursday, including three children and two leading officers in the Hamas-run police force, Palestinian and hospital officials said.

The Israeli military claimed an airstrike launched early on Thursday morning killed a senior member of Hamas' internal security apparatus. Palestinian officials reported that the strike in Gaza ...