UNITED NATIONS - Pakistan voted for an Arab-backed resolution on Wednesday under which the UN General Assembly called on the involved parties to work together for a political transition in Syria to end the 2-year-old conflict. The Qatari-drafted resolution was adopted by a vote of 107 countries in ...

  UN : With US-led coalition forces set to pull out ofAfghanistannext year,Pakistanhas underscored the role of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) in the transition process, and said that peace would help strengthen the war-torn country. "As the international ...

CAIRO (Reuters/AFP) - Leaders of Muslim nations called on Thursday for a "serious dialogue" between Syria's government and an opposition coalition on a political transition to end nearly two years of civil war, but pinned most of the blame for the bloodshed on the state.A two-day summit of the ...

WASHINGTON - U.S. President Barack Obama has welcomed the security transition that took place in Afghanistan earlier in the day, saying world leaders will demonstrate their support for Afghanistan beyond 2014 in the upcoming NATO summit in Chicago.The White House put out a statement on Sunday ...

As Afghanistan's transition picks up pace, regional engagement becomes even more important, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said as the country's partners met in neighbouring Tajikistan. Afghan authorities are working with the international community so that by 2014 they can assume full ...

Afghan President Hamid Karzai told visiting US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta that foreign soldiers should be pulled out of Afghanistan's remote areas and the date for the security handover should be brought forward. Karzai said the Nato-led mission needed to pull back its troops to the larger ...

Prospects for an orderly withdrawal of NATO forces from Afghanistan suffered two blows on Thursday as President Hamid Karzai demanded that the United States confine troops to major bases by next year, and the Taliban announced that they were suspending peace talks with the Americans. Getting talks ...