KABUL - *Russia said the US will have to drop its opposition to negotiating directly with the Taliban on the eventual pullout of American troops from Afghanistan or face a grinding and bloody war for years to come, Bloomberg reported. * The US refusal to talk with the group is “why we are at a ...

JERUSALEM - Israeli raids overnight hit "nearly all the Iranian infrastructure in Syria", Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman said on Thursday after strikes Israel says were in response to rocket fire at its forces it blamed on Iran. "We hit nearly all the Iranian infrastructure in Syria," ...

*TEHRAN: *Analysts fear a wider Middle Eastern war is brewing between Iran and its rivals, Israel and Saudi Arabia, warning that their failure to understand each other’s intentions threatens to tear the region apart. “We will not allow Iranian entrenchment in Syria, no matter the price ...

The China-India standoff in Donglang area has been ongoing for almost two months now, with little sign of an end in sight. As the world pays close attention to the impasse and how it will develop, an expert told CGTN that it is highly unlikely that a war would break out between China and India at ...

BRUSSELS (APP) - The EU has rolled over asset freeze and travel ban sanctions against nearly 150 people in Ukraine and Russia for supporting pro-Moscow rebels, European Union sources said Thursday.Ambassadors from the 28 EU member states approved extending the sanctions -- which target 146 ...