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This handout photograph taken in 1978 and obtained from the Afghan Taliban on October 12, 2015 shows the late Afghan Taliban leader Mullah...

BHOPAL: Noted Hindi poet Rajesh Joshi here on Monday announced he had returned his Sahitya Akademi award in protest against the attacks on...

Indian activist Sudheendra Kulkarni (L), whose face was blackened by ink in an alleged attack, looks on as former Pakistani foreign minister Khurshid...

A frame grab taken from footage released by Russia's Defence Ministry shows what Russia says is smoke rising after air strikes carried out...

Ousted Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak sits in the defendant?s cage in between his sons Gamal (left) and Alaa. (file photo)   CAIRO: An Egyptian...

Ankara: Turkish Prime Minister's Office confirmed that the twin blasts that rocked capital Ankara were caused by two suicide bombers. "Identification efforts continue...

Manila: The Philippines' election season kicked off Monday with politicians registering for thousands of posts, launching a typically raucous and deadly seven months...

Riyadh: Saudi Arabia is planning to triple the number of visas it issues for umrah, the lesser pilgrimage, reports said on Monday, less...

Beirut: Syria's leading Kurdish militia and several Arab rebel groups that have fought alongside it have formalised their alliance in a new group...

    Samastipur, India: India's poorest state, Bihar, began voting Monday in a high-stakes election that premier Narendra Modi hopes will help his government push...

Amman: French air strikes in Syria have probably killed French jihadists, a source in the delegation of Prime Minister Manuel Valls said on...

Moscow: Russia will prepare documents on rocket engines supplies to China by the visit of Russia's Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, due in December,...

Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) have detained at least 650 Palestinians since the beginning of this month, amid ongoing clashes between Palestinian youths and...

Baghdad: Iraq’s Air Force struck the convoy of Daesh leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi while he was heading to attend a meeting with the...

London: Russia called in the British defence attache in Moscow on Sunday after a British newspaper published what London said was an inaccurate...

Kabul: Two Britons were among five NATO troops killed in a helicopter crash in Kabul, a second blow for British forces Sunday after...

Melbourne: The former chairman of an Australian wheat firm that allegedly paid sanctions-busting bribes to secure UN oil-for-food programme contracts in Saddam Hussein's...

Ankara: Anger towards President Recep Tayyip Erdogan over Turkey's worst-ever terrorist attack intensified Sunday as authorities raced to identify the two male suicide...