BEIJING: Nepal’s foreign minister asked China on Friday for help in dealing with an energy crisis that crippled the landlocked country over the...
BEIJING: Nepal’s foreign minister asked China on Friday for help in dealing with an energy crisis that crippled the landlocked country over the...
BAGHDAD: Iraq’s armed forces will move to retake the major northern city of Mosul from Islamic State once they capture the western city...
MOSCOW:Russia’s air force has made 5,240 sorties since it started the strikes in Syria on Sept. 30, including 189 sorties on Thursday alone,...
Frank-Walter Steinmeier BERLIN: Saudi Arabia has a central role in fighting Islamic State as it can help eliminate the ultra-hardline militant group’s ideological...
BEIJING: China’s ruling Communist Party said on Friday it had begun a probe into a deputy chief prosecutor in the unruly far western...
Representative image Dhaka: A bomb exploded Friday at a mosque of the minority Ahmadi Muslim group in Bangladesh's northwestern town of Bagmara leaving...
Ursula Gauthier Beijing: China has refused to renew the press credentials of a French journalist, effectively expelling her, unless she recants one of...
South Korean photographer Ahn Sehong stands before his photographs of Korean "comfort women" in Tokyo ©Toshifumi Kitamura (AFP/File) Tokyo: A Japanese court on...
Bangui: Long-delayed elections in volatile Central African Republic that are key to ending years of brutal sectarian unrest were postponed Friday for three...
A video image of a Russian air strike on an Islamic State group oil-processing facility at an unidentified location in Syria. AFP Moscow: ...
Vatican City: Pope Francis offered his full support for UN efforts to end the conflicts in Syria and Libya in his Christmas message...
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan shakes hands with a man who was about to allegedly attempt suicide off the Bosporus bridge in Istanbul,...
Kabul: A 6.2-magnitude earthquake struck northeast Afghanistan around midnight near the country's borders with Pakistan and Tajikistan, according to the US Geological Survey....
The head of the most powerful Syrian insurgent group in the rebel-held suburbs of Damascus was killed on Friday in a Russian air...
Antarctic station Gonzalez Videla Santiago: Chile is carrying out a feasibility study for the construction of a permanent pier at one of its...
Armed Yemeni tribesmen from the Popular Resistance Committees, supporting forces loyal to Yemen's Saudi-backed President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi, drive their vehicle as they...
Jerusalem: The Israeli police said aPalestinian woman tried to ram a car into Israeli border guards in a village in the occupied West...
An Afghan National Army (ANA) soldier speaks on a radio at an outpost in Helmand province, December 20, 2015. REUTERS/Abdul Malik By Hamid...
