Tag: Geography of Asia

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte arrived Monday night in Saudi Arabia, where economic troubles forced the repatriation of thousands of his ...

Pakistan is set to execute an Indian naval officer accused of being a spy, potentially ratcheting up tension between the ...

The White House on Monday warned Syria that further use of chemical weapons or barrel bombs could bring US military ...

Last week's US strike on a Syrian air base destroyed a fifth of President Bashar al-Assad's working warplanes, Pentagon chief ...

Simba the lion and Lula the bear, the ailing last two residents of Mosul zoo, were flown out of Iraq ...

A rocket fired from Egypt's Sinai crashed into Israel on Monday, in an attack claimed by the Islamic State jihadist ...

Oman Oil Company and Kuwait Petroleum International signed Monday an agreement to build a refinery worth around $7 billion in ...

Five men were arrested for kidnapping and killing a Ghanaian diplomat in Jeddah The Criminal Court in Jeddah is expected ...

The Indian army said Monday its soldiers killed four suspected rebels who attempted to cross into the Indian-administered part of ...

Eight people have been killed and scores injured after police clashed with protesters during a by-election in Indian-administered Kashmir. Paramilitary ...

The most prominent insurgent group in Thailand's south rejected the military's peace plan in a rare statement on Monday, underscoring ...

Budding Chinese sleuths could start stalking foreigners as suspected spies in Beijing after authorities in the city on Monday offered ...

Indonesia's Aceh looks set to cane two men who admitted having sex in contravention of Islamic laws, an official said ...

Six people are dead and scores injured after police clashed with protesters during a by-election in Indian-administered Kashmir. Paramilitary forces ...

At least eight civilians were killed on Sunday when security forces in Indian-administered Kashmir opened fire on protesters during a ...

A site hit by airstrikes on Tuesday in the town of Khan Sheikhoun in rebel-held Idlib Allies of Damascus have ...

Six civilians were killed in Indian-administered Kashmir Sunday when police opened fire at protesters who stormed polling stations during a ...

Members of Iraq's Christian minority celebrated Palm Sunday in the country's main Christian town of Qaraqosh for the first time ...

British Defence Secretary Michael Fallon on Sunday accused Russia of being responsible "by proxy" for the death of 87 civilians ...

Washington's UN ambassador said that Syria's President Bashar al-Assad cannot stay in power after a suspected chemical attack that prompted ...