MOSCOW: After almost six months of intense campaign against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terrorist group, the Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday ordered the withdrawal of the Russian forces from Syria. The order by Putin was reportedly given to the Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu to start the withdrawal of the forces from Tuesday. Putin has ...

Negotiations are underway between the Afghan, Iranian and Indian officials for the construction of railway from the strategic Chabahar port to the western Herat province of Afghanistan. According to the officials in the Ministry of Public Works of Afghanistan, the government of India is mulling the support the construction of the railway from Chabahar to Herat. The officials further added ...

The militants of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terrorist group are forcing their sex slaves to take birth control so they can repeatedly rape them, it has been reported. The distressing move by ISIS fighters followed by a ruling by the terror group which prevents them to rape their slaves after they become pregnant. The ruling by ...

KABUL: The New Beginning Network launched its second discussion as part of the “Academic Discourse Series 2016” with scholars, intellectuals and members of civil society in Kabul and urged the government to include positive cultural values in its national development strategies for peace, national unity and sustainable economic development. Dr Hassan Makaremi, a psychoanalyst and strategy development expert from Iran ...

KABUL – First Lady Rula Ghani on Sunday expressed her concern over the increasing violence against women and said street harassment of women was unacceptable and people should change their minds. While talking about the International Women’s Day at the Ministry of Interior, Rula Ghani said women in uniform particularly in the police force, had played a special role in ...

     ISLAMABAD: PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari presents a souvenir to BJP leader Vijay Jolly.—PPI ISLAMABAD: PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has called for increasing people-to-people contacts between India and Pakistan to improve ties. The call was made by the PPP leader during a meeting with a three-member delegation of India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) which met him ...

SEOUL: A North Korean submarine is missing, reports said on Saturday, as the reclusive state issued a fresh threat of retaliation against US and South Korean forces involved in joint military drills. The unknown class of vessel had been reportedly operating off the North Korean coast earlier in the week when it disappeared. A South Korean defence ministry in Seoul ...

The Hezb-e-Islami party led by the notorious warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar has announced the group is prepared to sit-in for peace talks with the Afghan government. The group has released a statement saying they are prepared to participate in the peace talks in a bid to show to the nation that Hezb-e-Islami wants peace. The party also condemned the inclusion of ...

PARIS – Germany’s vice chancellor is making clear that likely gains for a nationalist party in state elections on Sunday won’t change his government’s stance on migrants. The Alternative for Germany, or AfD, party is expected to win seats in three more German state legislatures in the election amid unease over Chancellor Angela Merkel’s welcome last year for large numbers ...

In a new set of immigration rules announced by the British government, non-European Union (EU) residents who earn less than 35,000 British pounds will be deported, reported the The Guardian. The new rules will come into effect from April 6. The regulation will be applicable to skilled workers who have lived in UK for less than 10 years, and earn ...