AFGHANISTAN

An Afghan soldier mans a machine gun mounted on a vehicle while patrolling Guzara, Herat province

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange appeared in public for the first time in six months on Monday, seeming frail and confused during a British court appearance ahead of his extradition hearing.The 48-year-old Australian is fighting a United States bid to extradite him on charges filed under the US Espionage Act, and sat in the witness box as a London court decided the timetable of his full hearing, due to begin in February.

US Secretary of Defense Mark Esper made an unannounced visit to Afghanistan

The media campaign was sparked by Australian police raids on national broadcaster ABC and a News Corp journalist's home

US Secretary of Defense Mark Esper has arrived in Afghanistan on an unannounced visit

Head of the EU delegation in Afghanistan Pierre Mayaudon warned against an extended delay to publishing election results

The deadly blast in Afghanistan's eastern province of Nangarhar also wounded at least 36 people, including this man being carried to hospital

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has warned that the US withdrawal from Syria will hurt its allies and empower its enemies

Map of Afghanistan locating attack on a mosque in Haska Mena district, Nangarhar province.

Former defense chief James Mattis departed last year, saying in his resignation letter that Trump's worldview was irreconcilable with his own

The Duchess of Cambridge was given a sparkly headpiece.

An Afghan soldier sits in the back of a vehicle on patrol in Guzara district in Herat province. The UN says there was an unprecedented number of civilian casualties between July and September 2019

Wearing traditional headgear and clapping to music, Britain's Prince William and his wife Kate met a tiny animist tribe in northern Pakistan on Wednesday, after flying by helicopter to a remote Hindu Kush glacier near the Afghan border.The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge spent the afternoon witnessing the effects of climate change on the Kalash, Pakistan's smallest religious minority -- an ancient, polytheistic tribe who live in three valleys.

An Afghan National Security Forces soldier mans a machinegun mounted on a vehicle while patrolling in Guzara, Herat province

Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan gave a warm welcome in Islamabad Tuesday to Britain's Prince William, the son of his late friend Princess Diana, who is on his first official trip to the country with his wife Kate.The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge were greeted with handshakes by a smiling Khan, who first met William when the prince was a young boy, on the steps at the prime minister's house in the capital.

Twenty-eight civilians were killed and 249 injured on polling day alone in Afghanistan's presidential election

Afghan presidential candidate Abdullah Abdullah (C) claimed victory just two days after the September 28 election and before all votes had even arrived in Kabul for counting

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan rejected U.S. pressure to end the offensive, pledging, "We will not step back."

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange gestures from a police van in May. He has now been ordered to appear in court in person for a hearing on October 21. violation.

Civilians flee amid Turkish bombardment on Syria's northeastern town of Ras al-Ain in the Hasakeh province along the Turkish border on Wednesday

Former US army sergeant DeWitt Osborne, who was wounded by a bomb blast near Baghdad in 2006, points to a painting of himself by former president George W. Bush