Tag: Asia

The United Arab Emirates warned Qatar on Monday it could not belong to the Gulf Cooperation Council if it undermined ...

President Rodrigo Duterte offered self-rule to the Philippines' Muslim minority on Monday in an attempt to defeat Islamist militants who ...

Muslims heeded calls Monday not to enter a Jerusalem holy site and protested outside after Israeli authorities installed metal detectors ...

A Jordanian soldier has been sentenced to life in prison with hard labour for killing three US military trainers last ...

A Jordanian court on Monday sentenced a soldier to life imprisonment over the killing of three American military trainers outside ...

Malaysian authorities have arrested a Vietnamese man and seized a stash of elephant ivory worth almost $70,000, an official said ...

The people of war-torn Afghanistan continue to bear the brunt of the grinding conflict with civilian deaths at their worst ...

India has defended shelling across a disputed border that allegedly killed four Pakistani soldiers, saying Monday it had the right ...

Civilian deaths in Afghanistan hit a new high in the first half of 2017 with 1,662 killed and more than ...

LAST week President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo announced that Switzerland has agreed to assist Ghana to increase its cocoa production ...

From communing with forest spirits to whipping up love potions, Thailand's cave-dwelling hermits once conducted their supernatural endeavours with just ...

South Korea on Monday offered to hold rare military talks with the North, aiming to ease tensions after Pyongyang tested ...

Pakistan's military on Sunday accused India of hitting a military vehicle and killing four soldiers in cross-border firing in the ...

More than 330,000 people have been killed in the Syrian conflict since it started six years ago, around a third ...

Security forces have killed nine militants in the Sinai Peninsula and also destroyed 15 vehicles transporting weapons into Egypt across ...

French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian held talks with top officials in Kuwait on Sunday in a bid to bolster ...

Five Yemeni soldiers were killed and three wounded Sunday when gunmen suspected of ties to Al-Qaeda opened fire on a ...

Israeli ministers gave initial approval Sunday to a bill aimed at making it more difficult for the government to hand ...

Four suspected Islamist extremists surrendered Sunday after a night-long standoff with Bangladeshi police in which they detonated explosives and opened ...

Israel reopened an ultra-sensitive holy site Sunday closed after an attack that killed two policemen, but Muslim worshippers were refusing ...