1. A regional conference in Islamabad has ended with calls for the resumption of peace negotiations between the Afghan government and the Taliban.
2. US activists from the Black Lives Matter movement have held a new protest to show their anger at police brutality against African-Americans.
3. Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has strongly slammed Donald Trump’s recent anti-Muslim comments.
4. A petition calling for US Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump to be banned from entering Britain is close to getting 300 thousand signatures.
5. Turkey continues to defend the deployment of its troops to northern Iraq despite international criticism.
6. The US defense secretary has called for more efforts to counter Daesh terrorists saying US airstrikes have failed to contain the terrorist group in Iraq and Syria.
7. Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has accused Turkey of violating international law by downing a Russian jet weeks ago.
8. Russia, the US and the United Nations are set to hold three-way talks on the Syria crisis in Geneva on Friday.