An exiled advocate for China's ethnic Uighur minority said Monday that some of the group were fighting and dying in Syria -- including for Islamic State (IS) -- though she claimed they had been duped...
At least 11 people have been killed and 60 were wounded after a Taliban off-shoot attacked a demonstration in Lahore, Pakistan. The suicide bomber approached the pharmacists on a motorbike and...
A powerful explosion killed at least 10 people and injured 60 when it ripped through a protest in Pakistan's Lahore Monday, officials said, shattering a growing sense of security in the provincial...
Syria's regime is ready to release detainees in exchange for hostages held by rebels, the official SANA news agency reported Monday, ahead of peace talks in the Kazakh capital. "The government is...
Iraqi forces have thwarted an attempt by around 200 jihadist fighters to flee their bastion of Tal Afar towards Syria, west of the city of Mosul, a security spokesman said Monday. Forces from the...
Myanmar authorities have sentenced a Rohingya man to death for leading raids on police border posts that sparked a deadly military crackdown in the north of Rakhine state, police said on Monday....
Members of the special forces are rarely seen in public and considered loyal to the government Six journalists are expected to appear in court in Ivory Coast, charged with spreading false information...
The police has arrested some 20 suspects in connection with renewed chieftaincy clashes in Oshiee near Kokrobite in Accra. The clashes which have so far claimed one life with four injuries began over...
Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas elected a hardline member of its armed wing as its new Gaza head Monday, Hamas officials said. "Yahya Sinwar was elected to head the Hamas political office in the...
He hasn't been anywhere near the red carpet but Donald Trump has taken centre stage at this year's Berlin film festival, with actors, filmmakers and artists from around the globe rushing to condemn...
I am deeply concerned by the military mutinies that have beset Côte d’Ivoire in recent weeks. They are a setback not only for the country’s economic development and reputation, but also for...
Russia's military on Monday released drone footage showing more destruction of treasured monuments by the Islamic State in Syria's Palmyra since jihadists recaptured the UNESCO World Heritage Site...
Oshiee has almost become a Ghost Town with many fleeing to neighboring towns The police has arrested some 20 suspects in connection with renewed chieftaincy clashes in Oshiee near Kokrobite in Accra....
Twenty rebels and government troops were killed overnight in clashes as warring parties pushed north along Yemen's western coast, medical and government sources said Monday. The renewed clashes in...
Sri Lanka arrested nearly 550 soldiers in a single day as it reins in the mass desertion that's plagued the armed forces since the end of the civil war, an official said Monday. The military has been...
THE three regions in the northern part of Ghana—Northern, Upper East and Upper West Regions—are common for their underdevelopment status. One will not be wrong at all to say that these are...
Pakistan is conducting the mass repatriation of Afghan refugees through coercion, threats and abuse, Human Rights Watch said in a scathing report Monday, accusing the UN refugee agency of complicity...
The UN Security Council will hold an urgent meeting on Monday on North Korea's missile launch, the first test since US President Donald Trump took office. The United States, Japan and South Korea...
The UN Security Council will hold an urgent meeting on Monday on North Korea's missile launch, the first test since US President Donald Trump took office. The United States, Japan and South Korea...
Turkey's university lecturers remain defiant, despite what they describe as heavy-handed police tactics during protests against the latest sacking of 330 academics. In the last seven months following...
