Two European Union officials arrived on February 13 in Bishkek, where they will participate in special talks with Central Asian officials on joint efforts to assist people in Afghanistan.
Pakistani warplanes launched air strikes early on January 18 on alleged militant targets in neighboring Iran, an attack that a local Iranian official said killed at least four children and three women.
Iran launched attacks in Pakistan targeting what it described as bases for the militant group Jaish al-Adl, potentially further raising tensions in a Middle East already roiled by Israel's war in the Gaza Strip.
The United States will put Yemen's Iran-backed Huthi rebels back on a list of "specially designated global terrorist groups" due to their repeated attacks on international shipping in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said.