Myanmar police detains two journalists working for Turkey's state broadcaster TRT and their interpreter and driver for flying a drone near the parliament compound, amid tension between the two countries over the Rohingya crisis.

Myanmar authorities have agreed to allow the United Nations to resume food distributions in northern Rakhine state, suspended for nearly two months, World Food Programme (WFP) spokeswoman Bettina Luescher says.

US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson urges Myanmar's army chief to help end the violence in Rakhine state that has forced hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims to flee.

A Pakistani court issued an arrest warrant for ousted Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif after he failed to appear before the court over anti-

A Pakistani court issues an arrest warrant for ousted Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif after he failed to appear before the court over anti-corruption allegations, local media say, but he can avoid arrest by paying bail.

The United States says it wants accountability for atrocities in Rakhine State of Myanmar and their efforts seek to end the violence, support the displaced and their return home.

Indian police arrested a loan shark yesterday after an impoverished labourer burdened with debt doused himself and his family in kerosene and set them alight, killing his wife and two daughters.

Urging Myanmar government to facilitate the safe and voluntary return of all Rohingyas from Bangladesh, the US has said that it is exploring scopes to impose sanctions against the country.

A United Nations expert warned yesterday that Sri Lanka must speed up its own long-stalled investigation into war crimes by troops or

Indian External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj says Bangladesh gets priority among all its neighbours as per India’s neighbourhood policy.

Conditions at the Rohingya refugee camp at the Bangladesh-Myanmar border continue to be grim, says the Malaysian team helping out there.

The European Union will co-host a "Pledging Conference" on the Rohingya refugee crisis, with Kuwait, in Geneva.

Indian External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj arrives in Dhaka for a 24-hour visit to join the meeting of India-Bangladesh Joint Consultative Commission (JCC) and meet high government and political leaders to discuss bilateral issues.

If the Myanmar military is rendering the country’s de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi powerless, then she should step down, Nobel Peace laureate and economist Muhammad Yunus says in an interview with Aljazeera.

Experience shows that foreign interference in crises does not work and China supports the Myanmar government's efforts to protect stability, a senior Chinese official says, amid ongoing violence in Myanmar's Rakhine state.

Nearly 340,000 Rohingya children are living in squalid conditions in Bangladesh camps where they lack enough food, clean water and health care, the United Nations Children's Fund (Unicef) says.

A Pakistani anti-corruption court yesterday indicted ousted Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and his daughter over allegations linked to

A Pakistani anti-corruption court indicts ousted Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and his daughter over allegations linked to ownership of London properties, opening a trial that could see the former leader jailed.

A Pakistani Taliban suicide bomber rammed a car into a police truck in the southwestern city of Quetta yesterday, killing at least seven

India can help the US keep an eye on Pakistan as President Donald Trump has "taken tougher approach to Islamabad harbouring