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A former Afghan warlord who battled US forces after the 2001 invasion and nursed bitter rivalries with other militant factions before signing a peace deal with the Afghan government appeared in public for the first time in more than 20 years today and cal...

The discussion comes days after the administration announced it would slap hefty tariffs on softwood lumber being imported from Canada.

President Donald Trump's team boasted Wednesday that its tax-cut plan would lighten Americans' financial burdens, ignite economic growth and vastly simplify tax filing.

The launch came three days after the 68th anniversary of the People's Liberation Army Navy on Sunday, and against the backdrop of a rising China's efforts to beef up its navy to project the world's second largest economy's growing clout abroad.

The Trump administration issued sanctions Monday on 271 people linked to the Syrian agency responsible for producing non-conventional weapons, part of an ongoing U.S. crackdown on Syrian President Bashar Assad's alleged use of chemical weapons.

In addition, the poll found that compared with Republicans, Democrats are more likely to name Russia as the country to pose the greatest danger to the US, with 39 per cent Democrats holding this view, nearly twice as many as Republicans who think alike.

Nearly 47 million French voters go to the polls on Sunday in the first round of the country's presidential election.

Pakistani security forces on Thursday killed eight Jammat-ul-Ahrar terrorists in the country's Punjab province.

While criticising the death sentence awarded to retired Indian navy officer Kulbhushan Jadhav, former Pakistan ambassador to the US, Hussain Haqqani said Islamabad's "spy games" are making it tougher for the two South Asian neighbours to even explore peac...

The 'Yes' campaign to give Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan expanded powers was ahead of its rival in a bitterly-contested referendum today that will determine Turkey's future destiny, initial results said.

The GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast bomb - dubbed the "Mother Of All Bombs" - was unleashed in combat for the first time, hitting IS positions in eastern Nangarhar province on Thursday.

The 11-ton "mother of all bombs" dropped by US forces on ISIS-linked fighters in Afghanistan is a highly specialised weapon with a heritage dating back to huge bombs developed for use against Nazi targets in World War Two.

The Trump administration has settled on its North Korea strategy after a two-month review: "Maximum pressure and engagement."

Russia, Syria and Iran strongly warned the United States today against launching new strikes on Syria and called for an international investigation of the chemical weapons attack there that killed nearly 90 people.

American lawmakers have applauded the Trump administration after the US military dropped its largest non-nuclear bomb on Islamic State targets in eastern Afghanistan, saying that "it sends a clear message" to terror groups in the region.

It was the first time this type of bomb had been used in combat and was dropped from a MC-130 aircraft, Pentagon spokesman Adam Stump said.