Herat: The number of casualties in western Afghanistan due to the earthquake has surpassed 2,500, as rescue workers have started searching for survivors among the...
GENEVA: Syria’s air force carried out the September raid that killed at least 10 aid workers in Aleppo province by deliberately targeting a humanitarian convoy,...
BAGHDAD: Twenty-six thousand Iraqis fled west Mosul in the 10 days since security forces launched a major push to retake it from jihadists, the minister...
DHAKA: Bangladesh police fired riot guns and tear gas Wednesday as a protest by bus drivers and truckers turned violent, with several injured in clashes...
KABUL: Explosions and gunfire echoed through Kabul in two separate Taliban assaults on security buildings Wednesday, officials said, as the insurgents ramp up attacks before...
JAKARTA: Saudi King Salman Wednesday began the first visit by a Saudi monarch to Indonesia in almost 50 years, seeking to strengthen economic ties with...
SEPAND: Two women were charged Wednesday with the murder of Kim Jong-Nam, the half-brother of North Korea’s leader, after his assassination at a Malaysian airport...
SINCAN: The biggest trial of suspects accused of involvement in last year’s failed coup opened in Turkey on Tuesday in a courtroom specially built to...
DUBAI: Nearly 1,500 children have been recruited by Yemen’s warring parties, mostly the Shiite Huthi rebels, since March 2015, the UN said on Tuesday. The...
RAMALLAH: A senior Palestinian official has been denied entry to Egypt, prompting a Palestinian delegation to withdraw in protest from a counter-terrorism conference he was...