The International Assistance Mission (IAM) has confirmed that the aid workers killed last week in Afghanistan were volunteers with the Christian organization. One of the victims was a 35-year-old German woman.

• August 9, 2010

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev arrived Sunday in Abkhazia, one of the separatist territories over which Russia and Georgia warred two years ago, the state-run Interfax news agency reported.

• August 9, 2010

Afghanistan and expansion of Iran’s Chabahar port dominated discussions between visiting Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Mohd Ali Fathollahi and the Indian leaders on Friday.

• August 7, 2010

Two letters penned by top Iranian officials regarding the ongoing nuclear drama unfolding between Tehran and Western powers reveal that the Iranian government looks unlikely to compromise on key points. The letters cast renewed doubt over new nuclear talks and whether they can produce significant progress

• August 6, 2010

The United States is no longer the world’s biggest consumer of energy.

• August 6, 2010

The Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India natural gas pipeline, first proposed in 1995, is back on the drawing boards.

• August 6, 2010

Nothing projects U.S. global air and sea power more vividly than supercarriers. Bristling with fighter jets that can reach deep into even landlocked trouble zones, America's virtually invincible carrier fleet has long enforced its dominance of the high seas.

• August 6, 2010

Two recent developments in East Asia ― one in Northeast Asia and the other in Southeast Asia ― have brought to the fore some of the latent tensions in the region.

• August 5, 2010