A senior Taliban delegation led by Hedayatullah Badri, the Taliban’s minister of mines and petroleum, traveled to Turkmenistan on Thursday for talks on the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India, or TAPI, gas pipeline project. The delegation also included Abdul Latif Mansoor, the Taliban’s minister of energy and water, according to a statement from the Taliban administration. The statement said the discussions covered progress on […]

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio voiced hope of progress on ending the war with Iran, as he looked to Pakistani mediators to help advance efforts to strike an agreement. Previous comments by President Donald Trump had suggested weeks of stop-start negotiations to strike a permanent end to the war were teetering on the “borderline” between a deal and renewed […]

European intelligence agencies believe the Chinese military has trained hundreds of Russian soldiers for fighting in Ukraine, according to Germany’s Die Welt newspaper, which cited secret documents it had seen. The Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) reportedly hosted covert training for several hundred Russian soldiers late last year at six military bases in China, the newspaper reported on Wednesday, citing […]