The cease-fire went into effect on Wednesday, hours after 12 Afghan people died and 100 others were injured in fighting along the two countries’ border.
Taliban guards near the border with Pakistan. Fighting continued in the Spin Boldak border area of southern Afghanistan and central Pakistan on Wednesday.
President Ahmed al-Shara is making his first trip to Moscow, which backed the regime his rebels overthrew. Both sides have reasons to put the past aside.
Russian military vehicles near Hmeimim, Syria, in August. Moscow still has an air base in the area, despite the overthrow last year of its ally Bashar al-Assad.
A visit to The New York Times’s Kyiv bureau stayed with an editor based in Manhattan. So too did the air alert app that is widely used to warn civilians of Russian military activity.
China urged Cambodia and Thailand to end their border war in July. But weeks earlier, it had sent rockets and artillery shells to Cambodia, Thai intelligence documents show.
The Russian and Chinese leaders drew on a shared view of their countries’ roles in World War II to cast their modern-day partnership as a challenge to the West.
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