Chinese President Xi Jinping has called for "maximum restraint" to prevent a humanitarian crisis in Ukraine, while describing the situation there as worrying.

Former British Foreign Secretary David Miliband says the West has inflicted catastrophic damage on Afghanistan and its own reputation by imposing a policy of starvation on the country. 

Afghans representing the diaspora gathered in protest outside number 10 Downing Street, trying to raise awareness of the dire humanitarian crisis unfolding in Afghanistan.

The Taliban hope meetings of this type will help legitimize their government.

A delegation of the Taliban has begun its first day of talks in the Norwegian capital with the Afghan civil society.

Russian and Syrian officials call on the United States to remove its sanctions on Syria, and pull its occupation troops out of the war-torn country.

The United Nations special envoy for Syria rejects the so-called military solution to the decade-long Syrian crisis as “an illusion.”

While the Saudi-led coalition is in retreat and near defeat in the major cities of Hodeidah and Marib, Saudi Arabia’s Western allies are saying they are worried about the humanitarian situation in Yemen. 

Press Secretary Jen Psaki said the Biden administration had no plan for the matter.

Representatives from the Taliban interim government and the United States conclude a second round of talks in the Qatari capital, Doha.