US combat forces to leave Iraq by end of year

After more than 18 years, the role of US forces will shift to training and advising the Iraqi military to defend itself.

An economic recipe for unrest ignites in Tunisia

Blistering youth unemployment, mounting government debt, corruption and COVID are spurring unrest in Tunisia.

Hong Kong awaits verdict in first national security trial

North and South Korea restore severed cross-border hotline

Taliban claims to favour ‘settlement’. Can it be trusted?

Jupiter rising: SpaceX just scored another major NASA contract

‘I was a proud father – and now I have become a beggar’

First-ever Olympic gold lifts COVID-weary Philippines

Tunisia: Sacked PM says will hand over responsibility

Bosnian Serbs to boycott country’s central institutions