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The Taliban have captured Afghanistan’s second-biggest dam after months of fierce fighting in their former bastion of Kandahar, the insurgents and officials said Thursday.

The Lebanese pound was stable against the dollar on the black market, trading at LL12,400, as dealers waited for the outcome of Le Drian’s mission in Beirut

Twenty-two Palestinians were wounded in overnight clashes with Israeli police in annexed east Jerusalem, the Red Crescent said Thursday, as tensions flare over a controversial land rights case.

Le Drian met Lebanese leaders at the start of a visit to Beirut Thursday, a day after vowing to deal firmly with Lebanese politicians obstructing the formation of a new … Read More

After years of proxy warfare, Saudi Arabia’s secret talks with arch-rival Iran signal a high-wire diplomatic act as it scrambles to rein in Tehran-backed Yemeni rebels, although prospects of a … Read More

After nearly three decades in London, Christophe Reech was fed up with the city’s pandemic lockdowns.

Israel carried out air strikes overnight in the southern Syrian province of Quneitra, Syrian state media and a war monitor said Thursday, though there were no reports of casualties.

Le Drian began a visit to Lebanon Thursday with a meeting with Aoun, a day after vowing to deal firmly with politicians obstructing the formation of a new government.

The United States threw its weight behind a waiver on patent protections for Covid-19 vaccines as India Thursday posted record deaths and infections from a catastrophic wave swamping the country.

Ahmad Daoud surveyed his shrivelled tomato plants near the Dead Sea in Jordan, where severe drought in what is already one of the world’s most water-deficient countries is hitting hard.