Here are Press TV's latest top stories at 1600 GMT, August 31, 2022.

Mikhail Gorbachev​​​​​​​, Russia’s last Soviet-era leader, slams the US military invasion of Afghanistan as doomed from the outset.

Mikhail Gorbachev, who was the last leader of the former Soviet Union, has called on US President Joe Biden and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin to resolve their differences through negotiation and work towards further restrictions on nuclear weapons as part of efforts to “avoid nuclear war.”

The last leader of the former Soviet Union says he doubts the United States remains as one coherent state in the future.

Gorbachev says quitting the INF nuclear weapons agreement between Russia and the US is a "mistake."

Mikhail Gorbachev has criticized US President Obama’s “misguided policy” toward Russia.

The growing tensions between the US and Russia may lead to a nuclear war and destroy humankind, an American writer says.