KABUL (SW) – Zabihullah Mujahid, the spokesperson for Afghanistan’s de-facto government, has hailed the acceptance of credentials for Afghanistan’s Ambassador Bilal Karimi by the President of China as a significant achievement.
MONITORING (SW) – Iran will respond to any threat from the United States, Iranian Revolutionary Guards’ chief Hossein Salami said on Wednesday, as Washington weighs its response to the killing of American servicemen by Tehran-aligned militants.
MONITORING (SW) – Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthi group said on Wednesday it would keep up attacks on U.S. and British warships in the Red Sea in what it called acts of self defence, stoking fears of long-term disruptions to world trade.
MONITORING (SW) – Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Imran Khan and his wife Bushra Bibi have been sentenced to 14 years in jail in a case related to the illegal selling of state gifts.
MONITORING (SW) – The head of the Committee to Protect Journalists, Judy Ginsburg, has told Al Jazeera that the body has called on Israel to investigate accusations of crimes against journalists in the Gaza Strip.
MONITORING (SW) – A Pakistan court has sentenced former Prime Minister Imran Khan and his close aide, former Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi, to 10 years in jail in a case related to the leaking of state secrets.
MONITORING (SW) – Iran’s foreign minister arrived in Pakistan as the two countries seek to calm tensions, which have risen amid the conflict in Gaza.
MONITORING (SW) – Three U.S. service members were killed and at least 34 wounded in a drone attack by Iran-backed militants on U.S. troops in northeastern Jordan near the Syrian border, President Joe Biden and U.S. officials said on Sunday.
MONITORING (SW) – The secretary-general of the United Nations on Sunday called on countries to continue funding the main agency providing aid in Gaza after several of its employees were accused of taking part in the Hamas attack on Israel that ignited the war four months ago.
MONITORING (SW) – North Korea has fired several cruise missiles off its east coast, South Korean military officials said, continuing a streak of weapons tests that have drawn condemnation from the United States, South Korea and Japan.
KABUL (SW) – The first meeting of the regional contact group on Afghanistan is scheduled to take place in Kabul on Monday, with the participation of representatives from various regional countries.
MONITORING (SW) – Unidentified gunmen killed nine Pakistani workers in a restive southeastern border area of Iran on Saturday, Pakistan’s ambassador and Iranian state media said, amid efforts by the two countries to mend ties after tit-for-tat attacks.
