India and Tajikistan Monday discussed the situation in Afghanistan where international forces are set for a drawdown next year, and agreed that the global community should strengthen Afghanistan's capacity to maintain peace, stability and prosperity of its people.

• April 15, 2013

Iran has tested three new types of missiles, the deputy commander of the Ground Forces of Iran Kiyumers Haidari said, Iranian news agency FARS reported on Saturday.

• April 13, 2013

The United States will talk to North Korea, but only if the country gets serious about negotiating the end of its nuclear weapons program, Secretary of State John Kerry said Friday during a visit to South Korea, a key U.S. ally.

• April 13, 2013

The only declassified sentence in a Defense Intelligence report raised concern that North Korea might have the ability to miniaturize its nuclear weapons. Other defense agencies disagree.

• April 12, 2013

Equal and mutually beneficial cooperation between Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan is an example for the development of bilateral ties.

• April 11, 2013

EU Energy Commissioner Gunther Oettinger stated that European dependency on Russian gas must be reduced, APA-Economics reports.

• April 10, 2013

China expressed serious concern on Wednesday after Japan and Taiwan signed a fishing agreement for the seas around a disputed group of East China Sea islands which have been at the center of an increasingly hostile stand-off between Beijing and Tokyo.

• April 10, 2013

North Korea has been unusually blustery of late, threatening its southern neighbor with destruction, closing the jointly administered Keasong industrial complex , and flirting with what would be its fourth nuclear test since 2006.

• April 10, 2013