Tag: Geography of Asia

Nepal on Friday signed up to China's new Silk Road drive, a massive infrastructure project spanning some 65 countries at ...

In the battle against jihadists in northern Iraq, the village of Sayramun was recaptured in February but remains as isolated ...

With hostilities subsiding on Syria's western battlefronts, President Bashar al-Assad's army is seeking to head off US-backed forces fighting jihadists ...

Syrian government forces have gained ground in a rebel-held district of Damascus as part of the regime's efforts to push ...

Israeli authorities on Thursday charged a Palestinian with murder over the fatal stabbing of a young British woman on a ...

The United Nations said Thursday it was in talks with Iran, Russia and Turkey over who should control proposed safe ...

FIFA will rule on the issue of Israeli clubs playing in the West Bank by October, president Gianni Infantino said ...

Saudi Arabia's budget deficit dropped by 71 percent in the first quarter of the year, the government said Thursday, after ...

Saudi Arabia's budget deficit fell by 71 percent in the first quarter of this year, the finance minister said on ...

The US ambassador to Qatar has expressed her dissatisfaction with political events back home in a decidedly undiplomatic message posted ...

The suspect is said to have claimed responsibility for 20 deaths in Homs An asylum seeker has been sentenced to ...

An earthquake early Thursday killed at least four people in a remote area of northwest China's Xinjiang region, state media ...

A US-backed alliance of Syrian Arab and Kurdish fighters on Wednesday captured the key city of Tabqa and its nearby ...

A UN official warned Wednesday that up to half a million people could be displaced as conflict escalates and the ...

It was the second deadliest conflict in the world last year, but it hardly registered in the international headlines. As ...

Two gay men who were caught having sex by a vigilante mob will be caned 80 times for breaking Sharia ...

Prosecutors in Indonesia's Aceh Wednesday recommended 80 strokes of the cane for two men accused of having sex in contravention ...

UPS announced a partnership Tuesday to provide logistics at the 2020 World's Fair in Dubai, a venture it sees as ...

More than 50 people including children were injured on Tuesday when a car bomb exploded outside a supermarket in Thailand's ...

At least 40 people were wounded Tuesday when a car bomb exploded outside a supermarket in Thailand's insurgency-plagued south, police ...