Jere Van Dyk, a Pulitzer-nominated American journalist who was held captive by the Taliban says the group sees its struggle as one waged on a global scale and that Afghanistan under the Taliban's rule will be magnet for jihadis worldwide.

Iran denies report from Ukraine Foreign Ministry that Ukrainian aircraft sent to Afghanistan to evacuate Ukrainians had been stolen by "unknown gunmen" and flow to the Islamic Republic carrying an unknown number of passengers.

Solar energy can be stored by converting it into hydrogen using hematite.

Syrian army units aided by pro-Iranian militias have staged a major assault on an opposition enclave in the southern border...

Regional Cooperation Minister Esawi Frej argues that as past Israeli leaders dealt with late PLO leader Yasser Arafat without mediators, there is nothing preventing the government from doing the same with regards to Hamas.