An Istanbul court on Monday ordered the release of leading Turkish journalist Kadri Gursel in the controversial trial of

India will not deploy troops to Afghanistan as part of a new US strategy for the war-torn country, the Indian defence

Vehicles laden with food, facemasks and bedding have been sent to help more than 75,000 people who have fled a

Indian soldiers killed four militants during a two-day gun battle near the heavily militarised de facto border in Kashmir

Sri Lanka customs arrested an India-bound air passenger attempting with "difficulty" to smuggle nearly one kilogram

Nearly 50,000 people have evacuated their homes for fear of an imminent volcanic eruption on the Indonesian resort

Eman Ahmed, the world's heaviest woman who went to India for weight-loss surgery, has died at 36.

Pakistan accused India of adopting a posture of that of a "predator" and said if the international community wishes

Some 70,000 people have been ordered to evacuate their homes after a rain-swollen dam in Puerto Rico failed in the

Thailand's deputy junta leader has accused three police officers of helping sneak ex-prime minister Yingluck

China yesterday said it will ban exports of some petroleum products to North Korea, as well as imports of textiles

For the second year in a row, there may be no Saarc summit. India, Bangladesh and Afghanistan had pulled out of

China's earthquake administration says it has detected a magnitude 3.4 earthquake in North Korea that is a "suspected explosion", raising fears the isolated state had conducted another nuclear bomb test weeks after its last one.

Facing worldwide outrage over ethnic violence that forced over four lakhs of Rohingyas to flee to Bangladesh, Myanmar’s de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi says her country is willing to start the verification process “any time” to take back some of the Rohingya refugees.

Amnesty International says new satellite images and videos taken as recently as Friday afternoon in Myanmar’s Rakhine state show smoke rising from Rohingya Muslim villages, contradicting Aung San Suu Kyi’s claims that military operations there have ended.

The Myanmar government is guilty of genocide against the Rohingya people and other Muslim minorities, according to the international Permanent Peoples' Tribunal.

"Islamophobic" terms used by Chinese internet users to stigmatize Muslims have been blocked by authorities to prevent bias against

US President Donald Trump is urging the United Nations Security Council to take "strong and swift action" to bring Myanmar's Rohingya crisis to an end, US Vice President Mike Pence says.

A woman from Laung Don village flees her house when Myanmar soldiers came into the village, leaving behind her sister who had just given birth and her newborn baby.

China has opened a strategic highway in Tibet to the Nepal border which could be used for civilian and defence purposes, a move that