Tag: Asia

India's most powerful homegrown rocket to date is set to launch Monday, another milestone for its indigenous space programme that ...

After jihadists turned the roof of his house into a sniper position, Owayid Mohammed and his family fled west Mosul ...

The government in Sunni-ruled Bahrain announced Sunday an indefinite ban on the independent Al-Wasat newspaper on accusations that it publishes ...

Britain's Prince Harry began a goodwill visit to Asia on a subdued note Sunday following a deadly terror attack in ...

Syria's army Sunday seized a key town from the Islamic State group in the east of Aleppo province, a military ...

Philippine authorities said Sunday they were trying to negotiate a ceasefire in a war-torn southern city to rescue up to ...

Millions of Cambodians started voting in local polls on Sunday, testing the political temperature of a country rife with tension ...

Syria's President Bashar al-Assad has said the worst of his country's six-year war "is behind us" after a string of ...

Yemeni government forces fought Saturday to capture a rebel-held presidential palace in the southwestern province of Taez after clashes that ...

Hackers temporarily took over the Twitter account of the Bahraini foreign minister on Saturday, just 10 days after a cyber ...

Malaysia, the Philippines and Indonesia will launch joint patrols in waters off the Mindanao region this month to counter threats ...

Successive Israeli governments have invested billions of dollars over the past 50 years on settlements in the occupied West Bank, ...

The FBI is helping Qatar investigate the source of an alleged "hack" of state media which sparked diplomatic tensions in ...

The Bangladesh navy said Friday it has rescued 24 more fishermen from the Bay of Bengal, bringing the total to ...

The US exit from the Paris climate pact is a gift to China's ambitions to become world leader on everything ...

Pentagon chief Jim Mattis arrived in Singapore on Friday ahead of a key defence summit where longstanding US allies will ...

A sea of pro-government supporters rallied in the Cambodian capital in support of strongman PM Hun Sen on Friday, two ...

Its vaunted air force destroyed, its army humbled -- the Six-Day War of 1967 dealt Egypt a shock it has ...

US-led coalition forces in Syria are reinforcing their garrison near the crucial Al-Tanf border crossing amid a buildup of pro-government ...

Earth is now on the brink of its sixth mass extinction and human activity is to blame, experts have warned. ...