
AFGHANISTAN
Kabul backs China in sea row despite US
A Chinese official says Afghanistan supports Beijing’s stance in the South China Sea dispute.

A Chinese official says Afghanistan supports Beijing’s stance in the South China Sea dispute.

The chief counsel of the US House Select Committee on the 2012 Benghazi attack has said that "nothing" could have prevented American deaths on the night of the attack.

Armenia and Azerbaijan achieve a consensus on ways to settle their dispute over the Nagorno-Karabakh region.

Around 100 UK MPs and over 300 business chiefs are calling for Britons to vote for a Brexit.

An Iranian official says the “conservatism” of European banks is hindering the implementation of Iran’s nuclear agreement.

Daesh terrorists reportedly carry out massive bomb attacks at a key gas field in central Syria.

The notorious US NSA collaborated with the CIA and the military in torture of Guantanamo detainees.

Saudi forces are taking part in multinational military drills being held in Turkey.

Nearly four million people in the UK are living in “persistent poverty” while one in three Britons has experienced poverty in recent years, a new report shows.

After Nelson Mandela, the US still pursues an “apartheid policy” elsewhere in the world.

A Turkish MP tweets that another Russian jet should be downed after a Turkish basketball team lost to a Russian squad in the Euroleague finals.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov says Turkey is making a huge profit from oil business with terrorists.

Iran says a military solution to the conflict in Syria is nothing but an “illusion.”

US Secretary of State John Kerry will meet Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sisi amid political oppression in the country.

Despite boasting about her husband’s capabilities in economy, Hillary Clinton says she will not assign Bill a role in the cabinet.

Tony Blair should be impeached for destroying Iraq, and carrying out a war on Islam, a British academic says.

India says European banks are still reluctant to proceed with payments to Iran to clear the country’s oil debts to the Islamic Republic a week before the visit to Tehran by India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

The CIA's watchdog has "mistakenly" destroyed its only copy of Senate's torture report.