Iran state TV and the Fars news agency are reporting that former President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani and Esfandiar Rahim Mashaie, a leading ally of President Mahmud Ahmadinejad, have been barred from running in the June 14 presidential election.

Afghan President Hamid Karzai has met Indian leaders in an apparent push to secure military aid after international forces withdraw from Afghanistan next year.

Forget U.S. missile defense or Syria. What's really got Russia's foreign minister outraged is an alleged voting scandal at this year's Eurovision Song Contest.

The Kyrgyz government has decided to cancel the U.S.-Kyrgyz agreement on NATO's use of the Transit Center at Manas International Airport near Bishkek as of July 11, 2014.

A leading press freedom organization in Afghanistan has demanded an investigation into the killing of a journalist who was found dead after being missing for weeks.