Tag: Geography of Asia

Bhutan has protested to China over the construction of a road in disputed territory that has already heightened tensions between ...

Lebanon's government says a dam planned for a valley near Beirut is vital to tackle chronic water shortages, but the ...

As the chatter of customers and the smell of warm bread fill the Holey Artisan Bakery it is easy to ...

Israel hit a Syrian regime position on Wednesday night after stray mortar fire from the war-torn country struck the occupied ...

Asian migrants working as domestic staff and farmers are stranded in Saudi Arabia -- potentially illegally -- after their Qatari ...

A top Qatari human rights group said Wednesday it will employ Swiss lawyers to seek compensation for those impacted by ...

Thousands of Ethiopians are still stuck in Saudi Arabia after a 90-day amnesty for undocumented migrants expired on Tuesday without ...

Barack Obama took his wife and daughters to the ancient Borobudur temple on Java on Wednesday on a family vacation ...

US President Donald Trump's warning to the Syrian government not to carry out a chemical weapons attack appears to have ...

Most of the Syrian town of Deir Ezzor province is controlled by the jihadists and it has been the target ...

Qatar World Cup organisers said on Wednesday that the surprise publication of FIFA's Garcia report "vindicated the integrity" of its ...

Qatar on Wednesday condemned Saudi Arabia's refusal to negotiate the demands of the kingdom and its allies for ending a ...

As Hong Kong prepares to mark 20 years since it was handed back to China by colonial power Britain, we ...

Saudi Arabia reiterated Tuesday that its demands on Qatar were not negotiable, as US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson held ...

The UN envoy for Syria said Tuesday he hoped that talks set to begin next week in Astana would help ...

A US judge has halted deportations of all Iraqi nationals -- some slated for removal as early as Tuesday -- ...

US President Donald Trump and his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron agreed during a telephone call Tuesday on the need for ...

The US warning that Syria may be preparing another chemical weapons attack was based on suspect activity at the launch ...

President Bashar al-Assad toured a Russian airbase in western Syria on Tuesday in his first official visit to Moscow's main ...

The number of people missing from a huge landslide that buried a mountain village in southwest China last weekend has ...