Afghan President Ashraf Ghani met Pakistani President Arif Alvi at the eighth meeting of the leaders of the Non-Aligned Movement on Friday evening and called on Islamabad to boost counter-terror efforts, the Afghan presidential press service said on Saturday in a statement

US Secretary of Defense Mark Esper discussed boosting cooperation to block the allegedly "malign" influence of Russia and China with Montenegro's defense minister at a NATO gathering in Brussels, the Department of Defense said in a readout on Friday

The United States is taking "some actions" to boost its position near Syria's Deir Ez-Zor and to deny the Islamic State terrorist group (ISIS, banned in Russia) access to the oil fields in the area, US Secretary of Defense Mark Esper said Friday

Defense ministers of the NATO member states gathered on Thursday for a two-day meeting in the Belgian capital of Brussels to discuss matters of common interest, primarily, to have a difficult discussion of the situation in Syria amid the ongoing Turkish operation in the country's north

The United States will ensure that the Islamic State terror group (banned in Russia) will never take control of the oil fields in northeast Syria, US President Donald Trump said in a statement on Thursday

US President Donald Trump said during a press conference on Wednesday that Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) Commander Mazloum Abdi has assured him that the fighters of the Islamic State terror group (banned in Russia) imprisoned in northeast Syria are being detained under strong supervision