Ukraine's Cabinet ordered the Infrastructure Ministry, as well as Kyiv, Kirovohrad, Luhansk, Mykolaiv, Khmelnytsky, and Chernivtsi Regional State Administrations to allocate UAH 100,000 in aid each family.
The number of Ukrainians killed in a terrorist attack on the Intercontinental Hotel in Kabul, Afghanistan, has increased to seven people, according to Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of Ukraine in Tajikistan and Afghanistan, Viktor Nikitiuk.
Russian President Vladimir Putin during a telephone conversation with U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday stated that there was "no alternative" to Minsk agreements for the Donbas settlement, the Kremlin press service has told UNIAN.
The joint NATO-Russia Council is set to meet for a third time this year on October 26, with Ukraine and Afghanistan on the agenda, according to Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty (RFE/RL).
U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson made a surprise visit to Afghanistan on Monday to meet with Afghan leaders and reaffirm support for stability, according to Deutsche Welle.
U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said on Thursday he had signed orders to send additional troops to Afghanistan, the most concrete step yet by President Donald Trump's administration in tackling America's longest war, according to Reuters.
Reversing course from his campaign pledges, President Donald Trump on Monday night committed the United States to an open-ended conflict in Afghanistan, signaling he would dispatch more troops to America's longest war and vowing "a fight to win," Reuters reports.
President Trump has decided on a strategy for Afghanistan that also takes a broad approach toward tackling competing interests in South Asia, CBS News reports.
Afghan security forces continue to exchange fire with militants who have launched an attack on the Iraqi Embassy in Kabul, according to Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.
A powerful bomb exploded in the morning rush hour in the center of the Afghan capital on Wednesday, killing or wounding hundreds of people and sending clouds of black smoke into the sky above the presidential palace and foreign embassies, according to Reuters.
Attackers stormed the state television building in the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad, triggering an hours-long gunbattle with security forces that left at least two civilians dead, according to Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.
The Afghan government on Sunday confirmed the deaths of several senior commanders from the so-called "Islamic State" (IS) jihadist group, including its leader in Afghanistan, Abdul Hasib, according to Deutsche Welle.
Former Afghan president Hamid Karzai accused his successor on Saturday of committing treason by allowing the U.S. military to drop the largest conventional bomb ever used in combat during an operation against Islamic State militants in Afghanistan, according to Reuters.
U.S. forces in Afghanistan on Thursday struck an Islamic State tunnel complex in eastern Afghanistan with "the mother of all bombs," the largest non-nuclear weapon ever used in combat by the U.S. military, Pentagon officials said, according to the Associated Press.