Tag: Geography of Asia

Sri Lanka's military recorded its biggest peacetime deployment for search and rescue operations after monsoon rains triggered landslides and floods ...

Turkey will maintain a ban on visits by German politicians to a key airbase used for raids against the Islamic ...

Myanmar's wild elephants are being poached in record numbers with at least 20 killed this year due to surging demand ...

China and other nations must strengthen efforts to curb North Korea's nuclear weapons programme, US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson ...

Abu Dhabi's Etihad Airways said Monday it would suspend flights to Qatar after the United Arab Emirates was among major ...

Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates have cut diplomatic ties with Qatar, accusing it of destabilising the ...

China has expressed "firm opposition" to remarks made by US Pentagon chief Jim Mattis during a regional defence summit over ...

Indian paramilitary forces killed four attackers who tried to storm their camp in the disputed Kashmir region early Monday. The ...

Gulf states on Monday cut diplomatic ties with neighbouring Qatar and kicked it out of a military coalition, less than ...

Syria's army Sunday seized a key town from the Islamic State group in the east of Aleppo province, a military ...

One of Judaism's holiest sites, the Western Wall in Israeli-annexed east Jerusalem, must remain under "Jewish sovereignty", a senior member ...

Syria's President Bashar al-Assad has said the worst of his country's six-year war "is behind us" after a string of ...

India's anti-terrorism agency Saturday searched the homes of separatist leaders in restive Kashmir as part of an investigation of their ...

Hackers temporarily took over the Twitter account of the Bahraini foreign minister on Saturday, just 10 days after a cyber ...

Malaysia, the Philippines and Indonesia will launch joint patrols in waters off the Mindanao region this month to counter threats ...

Successive Israeli governments have invested billions of dollars over the past 50 years on settlements in the occupied West Bank, ...

The FBI is helping Qatar investigate the source of an alleged "hack" of state media which sparked diplomatic tensions in ...

US senator John McCain visited an American missile destroyer dubbed "Big Bad John" that docked in Vietnam Friday, as Washington ...

The Bangladesh navy said Friday it has rescued 24 more fishermen from the Bay of Bengal, bringing the total to ...

Thousands of Palestinians poured into Jerusalem to attend the first Friday prayers of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan at ...