Palestinians carry a wounded protester during clashes with Israeli troops following a demonstration against the Israeli offensive in Gaza, at the Beit Fourik...
Palestinians carry a wounded protester during clashes with Israeli troops following a demonstration against the Israeli offensive in Gaza, at the Beit Fourik...
Sailors guide an F/A-18C Hornet on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS George HW Bush (CVN 77) of the US 5th...
Former Lebanese premier Saad Hariri (left) greets a member of the guard of honour as he arrives at the Grand Sedail governmental palace...
GAZA CITY: Cradling his baby daughter, Saeed Masri took flight yesterday from renewed Israeli bombardment of Gaza with little faith that even a...
PARIS: As US warplanes struck jihadist positions in Iraq in a bid to prevent a potential genocide, Washington’s Western allies have so far...
NAJAF: One of Iraq’s most influential Shia clerics, Moqtada Sadr, claimed yesterday that jihadists were poised to attack Baghdad and he vowed to...
ANKARA: Turkey is stepping up humanitarian aid to northern Iraq, officials said yesterday, but looks unlikely to get involved in military action against...
Taiwan’s national flag flies at half mast over the Presidential Office in Taipei on Tuesday to pay homage to the dozens of people...
A child on Thursday looks out from a tent as it rains at a temporary shelter in China’s Yunnan province. The death toll...
NAYPYIDAW, Myanmar: Southeast Asia started talks yesterday as China faces demands to cease provocative behaviour in disputed waters and host Myanmar falls under...
MANILA: The Defence department has ordered the Philippine Air Force (PAF) to contact the Polish firm that supplied the Sokol helicopter that crashed...
PHNOM PENH: Cambodia welcomed yesterday the conviction of two Khmer Rouge leaders for crimes against humanity, amid concerns from rights groups that political...
JAYAPURA: Indonesian police have arrested two French journalists who were reporting on the separatist movement in the restive eastern region of Papua, police...
BANGKOK: Thai police yesterday said they have launched a human trafficking probe after a Japanese man, believed to be the father of nine...
A man arranges national flags for sale at his makeshift stall ahead of Pakistan’s Independence Day in Islamabad yesterday. Pakistan celebrates Independence Day...
US Secretary of State John Kerry (centre) talks as Afghanistan’s presidential candidate Abdullah Abdullah (left), and Jan Kubis, the UN Secretary-General’s special representative,...
ISLAMABAD: The top leadership of Jamaat-e-Islami has sought from the government the issuance of an ordinance to get re-counting of any constituency done...
KABUL: The Afghan soldier who killed US Major General Harold Greene had spent three years in the army before he squeezed off two...
