Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., listens as President of the European People`s Party Manfred Weber speaks Friday at a panel at the Munich Security Conference...

The Department of Homeland Security is poised to shut down this weekend as Congress remained deadlocked Thursday on a path forward before leaving town for a weeklong holiday break...

Iran`s Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) headquarters (File photo) Iran`s Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) says the recent riots were planned and directed by Israel and the United States as part of an ongoing campaign to push the country into insecurity...

An 88-year-old US Army veteran named Edmund "Ed" Bambas was still working full-time at a grocery store, not out of choice, but necessity...

An insurance agent talks with clients inside the main location of Las Madrinas de los Seguros, Spanish for "The Godmothers of Insurance," at a shopping center in Miami, on Dec...

An insurance agent talks with clients inside the main location of Las Madrinas de los Seguros, Spanish for "The Godmothers of Insurance," at a shopping center in Miami, on Dec...

Iran`s Deputy Minister of Information and Communications Technology Meysam Abedi (R) and Russia`s Deputy Minister of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Media Alexander Shoitov sign an agreement to develop cooperation in various fields of communications and information technology in Moscow on November 5, 2025...

Iran`s Deputy Minister of Information and Communications Technology Meysam Abedi (R) and Russia`s Deputy Minister of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Media Alexander Shoitov sign an agreement to develop cooperation in various fields of communications and information technology in Moscow on November 5, 2025...

Iran`s Deputy Minister of Information and Communications Technology Meysam Abedi (R) and Russia`s Deputy Minister of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Media Alexander Shoitov sign an agreement to develop cooperation in various fields of communications and information technology in Moscow on November 5, 2025...

US Ambassador to the United Nations Michael Waltz speaks during a meeting of the United Nations Security Council to consider a US proposal for a UN mandate to establish an international stabilization force in Gaza, at UN headquarters in New York City, US, November 17, 2025...

The UN Security Council meets about the situation in Gaza, at UN headquarters in New York on December 22, 2023...

Secretary-General of the United Nations, António Guterres UN Secretary-General António Guterres has urged the United States to lift or waive its sanctions against Iran’s oil sector to resume the US-abandoned Iran nuclear deal, officially called the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA)...

Iran’s Deputy Permanent Representative to the UN Zahra Ershadi An Iranian envoy to the United Nations has raised concerns about the possession of chemical weapons by the United States and Israel, describing the pair as the main obstacles to the elimination of such arms across the world...

Zahra Ershadi, Iran’s Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations Iran’s Deputy Permanent Representative to the UN Zahra Ershadi says the United Nations Security Council must act to force Israel to end the occupation of Syria’s Golan Heights and aggression against the country...

Taliban reacted to the decision of the United Nations over allowing Naseer Ahmad Faiq to assume the seat of Afghanistan’s permanent representative at the UNGA and said the UN must not further deteriorate the issue...

Military-grade spyware maker, NSO Group, has faced many scandals with product traced to high-profile phone hacks...

The picture shows the blood stained window of a vehicle in the southern Iraqi city of Basra after a deadly motorcycle bombing on December 7, 2021...

Urgent steps must be taken to address the looming humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan and stave off economic collapse, speakers at Wednesday’s UN Security Council meeting on Afghanistan said...

Iran’s Deputy Permanent Representative to the UN Zahra Ershadi An Iranian envoy to the United Nations has warned about recent suspicious attempts to create artificial maritime incidents in the Persian Gulf and the broader region, after the US and its allies accused Iran of an attack an Israeli-managed ship, urging a swift end to such irresponsible acts that harm the region’s peace...

In this file picture, a burnt car is seen at the site where Blackwater guards opened fire on a crowd at Nisour Square in Baghdad, Iraq, on September 16, 2007...

A picture of Iranian-made Martyr Abu Mahdi cruise missile China has lauded the expiration of the UN Security Council (UNSC) arms embargo and travel restrictions against Iran, saying the development, which was stipulated in the Council’s Resolution 2231, should be faithfully implemented...

United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan on Thursday reiterated its calls for an end to violence in the country following five days of heavy clashes in the southern province of Helmand...

At least 14 Afghan security force members were killed in an attack by insurgents that started on Monday night in Gizab district of Uruzgan province, said Zargai Ebadi, a spokesman for the provincial governor...

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks after a meeting with members of the UN Security Council, calling for the restoration of sanctions against Iran as US Ambassador to the United Nations Kelly Craft listens at UN headquarters in New York, US, on August 20, 2020...

The file photo shows a view of the United Nations Security Council in session...

The Afghan National Security Adviser Hamdullah Mohib, during a visit to the eastern provinces on Tuesday said that the recent artillery attacks by the Pakistani’ military forces on Afghanistan’s eastern Kunar province will not go without a response...

At least 13 Afghan security forces members were killed, and 10 others were wounded, in Taliban attacks in the northern province of Kunduz early Monday morning, according to a security forces source...

(FILES) In this file photo taken on June 9, 2020, fishermen sail across the Nile river in the Sudanese capital Khartoum...

Two commanders in the Afghan security forces were killed in a Taliban attack on Friday night in Helmand province in the south of Afghanistan amid an unannounced truce between the two sides and while peace efforts by the Afghan government and its allies are underway...

A file photo of the interior of the United Nations Security Council at its headquarters in New York, US Veto powers China and Russia have written to the United Nations, arguing strongly against a US threat that it will try and bring about a return of all sanctions against Iran if the world body fails to extend an arms embargo against Tehran...

This file picture shows Russian-built S-400 missile defense systems deployed in an undisclosed location in Russia...

Volunteers from the county government spray pesticide on February 25, 2020 at a hatch site near the town of Isiolo, Isiolo county, eastern Kenya, where locust nymphs have hatched en masse...

Afghan security institutions are facing serious questions a day after at least 32 people were killed and 8 others were wounded in an attack on a ceremony marking the anniversary of the death of Abdul Ali Mazari, the slain leader of the Hezb-e Wahdat party...

US National Security Adviser Robert O’Brien has warned Britain about allowing China’s Huawei company into its 5G telecommunications networks, saying such a move would pose a risk to UK’s secret intelligence agencies, according to British media...

In a rare statement, Afghanistan’s National Security Advisor Hamdullah Mohib has predicted that the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF) will break the Taliban’s backbone in four months and he believes the stalemate in the battlefield is over...

A number of members of Meshrano Jirga (the Upper House of Parliament) on Sunday raised concerns regarding the security situation and said the United States is not doing enough to bring stability in Afghanistan...

By Sajad Abedi Today In the world, with about one-third of the people having access to the Internet, and most companies, institutions, and governments require computers and communications tools for their daily work, cyber security issues are a problem for governments, institutions, and even ordinary people...

By: Sajad Abedi Information warfare is primarily a construct of a ‘war mindset’...

Military journalist Andrei Kotz gives his take on five of the best lesser-known pistols in the arsenals of Russia’s police, security and special forces...

Several members of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) have called for tougher sanctions on North Korea after a powerful nuclear test, which increased concerns in the West about the country’s weapons program...

Briefing the United Nations Security Council on Wednesday, the Secretary-General's Special Representative for Afghanistan, Tadamichi Yamamoto said the recent security and political crisis was sparked by a terrorist bombing in Kabul's center on 31 May...

The top Afghan and US officials have held talks regarding the framework of the new bilateral cooperation between Kabul and Washington...

Iranian security forces have killed two terrorists and arrested five others in the southeast of the country...

At least 57 insurgents, including Daesh militants, have been killed in the past 24 hours across the country in Afghan security forces joint operations, the Interior Ministry said in a statement...