Afghanistan has claimed that its forces carried out operations against Pakistani military positions along the Durand Line and killed 25 Pak soldiers.

PM Modi on Thursday night spoke to Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian over the phone and discussed the "serious situation" in West Asia.

The US on Thursday confirmed that a refuelling aircraft crashed in Iraq. However, officials also said that the crash was not due to hostile fire or friendly fire.

In Sri Lanka, the CID  has filed three key allegations linked to probe into the 2019 Easter Sunday bombings against the ex- Intelligence chief.

An attack killed a French soldier in Erbil in Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region, President Emmanuel Macron said on Friday.

A three-year-old ​party won Nepal’s general elections by a landslide, positioning its candidate Balendra Shah to become the next PM.