BEIRUT: The leader of Lebanon’s Hezbollah militant group said yesterday that Syrian rebels will not be able to defeat President Bashar Assad’s regime...
BEIRUT: The leader of Lebanon’s Hezbollah militant group said yesterday that Syrian rebels will not be able to defeat President Bashar Assad’s regime...
Shah Wali Khan KANDAHAR: A roadside bomb planted by the Taliban killed a senior member of Afghanistan’s peace council yesterday, officials said, the...
Shamsia Hassani paints graffiti at the French Cultural Centre in Kabul yesterday. The 25-year-old Hassani, perhaps Afghanistan’s first serious graffiti artist, discovered street...
LONDON: Three British soldiers were killed in Afghanistan on Tuesday when their vehicle was hit by an improvised explosive device, the Ministry of...
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s powerful army chief has suggested the military is unhappy with how authorities have treated former army chief and president Pervez Musharraf...
WASHINGTON: A US government-appointed panel urged Washington Tuesday to step up pressure on Pakistan over religious freedom, warning that risks to its minorities...
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s army chief said Tuesday that general elections scheduled for May would be held on time and help cement democracy in a...
TALLINN: Afghanistan, the world’s largest grower of opium poppies, should not shoulder all the blame for its drug surge, its foreign minister said...
Islamabad: Pakistani police conducted an overnight joint operation in the metropolis’ area of Clifton and arrested at least 24 suspects in Karachi. According...
Indonesian workers carry a banner calling for workers to unite during a march against outsourcing policy and low wages, to the Presidential Palace...
A man looks at buildings on fire during riots at Oakkan village, 100km north of Yangon. Rioters attacked a mosque and Muslim businesses...
Beijing: Scientists are seriously concerned about a new bird flu virus that is causing severe disease in China, killing a fifth of all...
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia’s opposition and clean-polls activists said yesterday the integrity of weekend elections was in doubt after revelations that indelible ink meant...
BEIJING: Chinese officials have been holding secret sauna parties and hiding their alcohol in plastic water bottles as they seek to get around...
MANILA: Chinese surveillance ships deployed within the Philippines’ Panatag Shoal are now imposing a 15-mile fishing restriction around the contested area, fishermen from...
DHAKA: Bangladesh rescuers said yesterday that more than 500 people had likely died in a garment factory block that collapsed last week as...
HONG KONG: Hong Kong customs officers have seized 113 ivory tusks worth nearly $400,000 on the Chinese ivory market, officials said yesterday. The...
KUALA LUMPUR: Saudi Arabia's Hafez Ibrahim Al Medlej made a late withdrawal from the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) presidential election on Wednesday, leaving...
