Afghanistan headed to the polls on October 20 to vote for its third parliament since the country's new constitution was adopted in 2004. It has not been easy for Afghanistan to arrive at this

Correction 20/10/2018: A previous version of this article stated that Jamal Khashoggi was an opinions editor for the Washington Post. This is incorrect. Khashoggi was a opinions contributor to the newspaper, as is now

The director of the new National Law Enforcement Museum in Washington, DC, says that he wants to create a dialogue between law enforcement and its critics in the US. However, not everyone is impressed,

The United States is going to unilaterally withdraw from a decades-old treaty with Russia that bans a wide array of nuclear weapons, US President Donald Trump has said. The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty was signed

Saudi Arabia says Jamal Khashoggi was killed inside its consulate in Istanbul. The announcement was made on Saudi state TV in the middle of the night - 17 days after the Saudi journalist was

Thousands of people have rallied in Taiwan's capital to call for a referendum on independence, in the first major protest calling for a popular vote since the self-ruling island became a democracy more than

Five journalists arrested by the police in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have been released after 12 hours of interrogation. The journalists were picked up on Friday after publishing articles about alleged misappropriation

Not much is known about the solar system's smallest and least-explored planet, Mercury. Scientists are hoping to change that. The key to their plan is the BepiColombo, a spacecraft launched on Saturday. It will

BEIRUT: An offensive by US-backed forces against Daesh’s last redoubt in eastern Syria killed 35 militants on Saturday, a Britain-based war monitor said. Twenty-eight Daesh members were killed in air strikes by the US-led

BEIRUT: Daesh has released two women and four children among 27 surviving Druze hostages it seized during a deadly July attack on the minority community’s heartland in southern Syria.State television broadcast footage of the