Tag: Geography of Asia

A cholera outbreak in Yemen, which has claimed 1,400 lives in two months, shows tentative signs of slowing as fatality ...

China has made a formal protest after accusing Indian border guards of crossing from Sikkim state into its Tibetan territory, ...

US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson will meet with his Qatari counterpart Tuesday in Washington, after the US department voiced ...

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Monday urged US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson to prevent "provocations" against Syrian government ...

A top Republican lawmaker on Monday threatened to block US arms sales to members of the six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council ...

Bahrain's foreign minister on Monday accused Qatar of a "military escalation" in the Gulf diplomatic crisis, an apparent reference to ...

At 6:55 a.m. on Monday, a man in rural Mongolia stood outside a yurt and looked down at his watch. ...

Mongolians head to the polls on Monday to choose between a horse breeder, a judoka and a feng shui master ...

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on Sunday said his country wants to bolster ties with Qatar and rejected a Saudi-led blockade ...

US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson called Sunday for a "lowering of rhetoric" between Qatar and a four-nation group led ...

Israeli forces fired on Syrian regime positions after projectiles from the war-torn country hit the occupied Golan Heights on Sunday, ...

United Arab Emirates President Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed al-Nahyan made his first public appearance Sunday since suffering a stroke more ...

Pakistan has deployed a 15,000-strong military force to protect Chinese nationals working on energy and infrastructure projects in the country, ...

Five people including two children were killed Sunday when a tree fell on a gondola at a ski resort in ...

Government forces in Indian-administered Kashmir were locked in an intense battle Sunday with armed militants who took cover in a ...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday welcomed Qatar's dismissal of a sweeping list of demands from Saudi Arabia and ...

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad led Eid al-Fitr prayers in the central city of Hama on Sunday, appearing in public outside ...

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi ratified a treaty that hands over two Red Sea islands to Saudi Arabia in a ...

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi ratified a treaty that hands over two Red Sea islands to Saudi Arabia in a ...

An Israeli aircraft carried out a strike on Syria after 10 projectiles fired from the war-torn country hit the occupied ...