US soldiers walk at the site of a suicide attack as a vehicle pulls the wreckage of a damaged car in Kabul yesterday. ...
US soldiers walk at the site of a suicide attack as a vehicle pulls the wreckage of a damaged car in Kabul yesterday. ...
MAZAR-I-SHARIF: Taliban militants killed 22 police officers and wounded eight after ambushing a police convoy in northern Afghanistan yesterday, officials said. The early...
ISLAMABAD: Some 5,297 cases of human rights violations were registered in Pakistan in 2013, says a report submitted by the Ministry of Law,...
KARACHI: Pakistani officials said yesterday they had thwarted an Islamist group’s bid to tunnel into Karachi’s main prison and stage a jailbreak that...
A Hong Kong police officer with a baton (centre) shouts to clear a path following clashes involving pro-democracy protesters and anti-occupy protesters in...
Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa waves at the crowd of mostly Northern Tamils aboard the Yal Devi train along the newly reconstructed railway...
An injured Thai riot police officer is helped by his colleagues after a bomb attack during clashes with anti-government protesters in Bangkok, Thailand,...
by Bevelyn Escolango Olongapo City: Two US warships were ‘locked down’ at the port of Subic Bay yesterday after investigations by the local...
PHNOM PENH: Three suspected timber traders have been arrested over the murder of a Cambodian journalist investigating illegal logging in the country’s forested...
BEIJING: China has detained a prominent scholar who helped blind dissident Chen Guangcheng flee to the United States two years ago and has...
SANAA: The Yemeni president on Monday appointed the country's envoy to the United Nations, Khaled Bahah, as prime minister, an aide said, in...
BAGHDAD: Iraqi government troops stationed on the edge of Heet in beleaguered Anbar province have withdrawn to another base, leaving the city under...
JAKARTA: Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg pressed Indonesia's incoming leader Monday to improve Internet access in the sprawling archipelago saying that his social media...
MANILA: Philippine authorities are investigating the possible involvement of a US soldier in the killing of a local transgender person after the two...
DUBAI: Saudi Arabia's second biggest telecommunications operator Etihad Etisalat (Mobily) has appointed Serkan Okandan as its deputy chief executive, it said in a...
MURSITPINAR: Heavy fighting broke out on Monday between Islamist jihadists and Kurdish fighters close to the Turkish border just north of the besieged...
SHANGHAI: China's auto sales rose just 2.5 percent year-on-year in September, the slowest growth for any month this year, an industry group said...
BEIJING: US entertainment firm Universal Parks & Resorts will invest more than $3.0 billion with a Chinese partner to open a movie theme...
