Bashar al-Jaafari Moscow--Talks on ending the war in Syria were set to start in Moscow Monday but the absence of key opposition groups...
Bashar al-Jaafari Moscow--Talks on ending the war in Syria were set to start in Moscow Monday but the absence of key opposition groups...
Islamabad--Sri Lanka and Pakistan signed six agreements including one on atomic energy Monday, the two countries' leaders said, as the strategically important island...
Riyadh--A Saudi policeman was killed in a gunfight with "terrorists" in a town populated by minority Shias in the east of the kingdom,...
Singapore--Two Singaporean men have been arrested for staging a weekend protest outside the government complex that houses the offices of the president and...
Dhaka--Powerful storms swept Bangladesh at the weekend leaving a trail of devastation in the country's northwest and killing at least 35 people, officials...
Baga Sola--Seven civilians were killed in an attack in Chad blamed on Nigerian Boko Haram rebels, officials said Monday. The Islamist militants ambushed...
South Korean President Park Geun-Hye Seoul--South Korean President Park Geun-Hye promised Monday to consider raising the Sewol ferry that sank a year ago...
Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas Ramallah--Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas threatened Sunday to turn to the International Criminal Court over Israel's refusal to fully release...
Aden--Dozens of people have been killed in fresh clashes between rebels and fighters loyal to President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi in southern Yemen, local...
Kuala Lumpur--Malaysia's police chief said on Monday that 17 people, including two who recently returned from Syria, had been arrested on suspicion of...
Ji Bingxuan Tokyo--A senior official from China's National People's Congress will be in Tokyo this week, Japan's lower house said Monday, the highest-profile...
Beirut--Islamist fighters in northern Syria released two dozen women and children late on Sunday in exchange for a rebel commander held by pro-regime...
New Delhi--India's government launched a new air quality index on Monday, under intense pressure to act after the World Health Organisation declared New...
Jakarta--An Indonesian court Monday dismissed the latest appeal by two Australian drug smugglers facing imminent execution, taking them a step closer to the...
Khawaja Asif Islamabad--Saudi Arabia has asked Pakistan to contribute aircraft, ships and ground troops to its coalition fighting rebels in Yemen, the Pakistani...
Mohammad Kamaruzzaman Dhaka--A Bangladeshi Islamist leader lost his final appeal Monday against a death sentence for overseeing a massacre during the 1971 independence...
DAMMAM: A policeman was killed and three others injured in Awamiyyah in the Eastern Province during fire exchange with terrorist elements on Sunday,...
JEDDAH: A total of 465 Saudi Arabian Airlines (Saudia) flights were canceled between Wednesday and Friday last week, which constitutes 33 percent of...
