AFGHANISTAN

Narendra Modi visits his counterpart Nawaz Sharif, becoming the first Indian leader to visit Pakistan in more than a decade.

The surprise visit to Pakistan is the first by an Indian prime minister in more than a decade, and it comes just weeks after the two leaders met at the climate-change summit in Paris.

India and Russia have enjoyed strong ties in recent years, with New Delhi buying billions of dollars in weapons from Moscow.

The nation's prime minister said Canadians should make the new arrivals feel at home, as a compassionate holiday gesture.

The Kentucky senator and Republican presidential candidate is lashing out against fellow White House hopefuls and Washington waste for his holiday tradition.

Russia is arming Kyrgyzstan's military, to the northeast of Afghanistan, to counter threats from the Islamic State group.

Russia and India have held an annual bilateral summit, hosted alternately by Moscow and New Delhi, since 2000.

The Army sergeant, who disappeared from his Afghanistan outpost in 2009, deferred entering a plea and choosing a type of trial.

Sgt. Joe Lemm, a detective, was among the U.S. service members killed by a suicide bomber Monday near Bagram Airfield.

Just days ago, the Pentagon warned of deteriorating security in the country and a rise in the number of effective strikes by Taliban insurgents.

Lisa Akbari, who worked as a research manager for the U.S. military for four years, was shot in her apartment Sunday night.

The 90-minute broadcast, which includes interviews, messages and songs about ISIS, encourages young people to find a sense of direction in the radical movement.

The province is a center of opium production and a Taliban heartland that U.K. and U.S. troops struggled to control for years.

The WTO has been attempting to agree on a worldwide package of reforms since those at a meeting in Doha hatched an ambitious plan for knocking down trade barriers in 2001.

Martha Raddatz and David Muir are expected to moderate the third Democratic presidential debate of 2015.

The human rights group said the European Union risks being complicit in the illegal deportations as it recently pledged 3 billion euros to Turkey.

Islam is both a religion and a form of government, the former U.S. senator from Pennsylvania argued during Tuesday's "undercard" Republican debate.

ISIS presence in Afghanistan has increased as presence shifts east from Syria and Iraq.

The U.S. secretary of state met Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov Tuesday, to narrow divisions over Syria, Ukraine and the fight against ISIS.

The proposed agency would have the power to intervene even without the host country's consent -- a provision that is being opposed by several member states in the 28-nation bloc.

The 34-nation group is said to include Arab countries such as Egypt, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates, and Islamic nations Turkey, Malaysia and Pakistan.