Pakistani Army Chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa arrived in Kabul yesterday to participate in a high-level conference, local media

Citing increasing threats from China and Russia, the Pentagon is asking for a major boost in military spending for 2019, requesting

The Pakistani Taliban yesterday confirmed that their deputy leader was killed in a suspected US drone strike last week and said they had

Sri Lanka's former leader Mahinda Rajapakse yesterday demanded a snap general election and challenged his successor's right to

Comments by US Vice President Mike Pence suggest the United States may be looking more favourably at diplomatic engagement with

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina expresses profound shock at the death of noted human rights lawyer and social activist of Pakistan Asma Jahangir.

Rescuers yesterday ended their search of a Taiwan building partially toppled by a 6.4-magnitude earthquake as the last trapped pair

The US and South Korea stand united against North Korea's nuclear program, even as the two Koreas hold talks in conjunction with the

Pakatan Harapan Chairman Dr Mahathir Mohamad has been admitted to the National Heart Institute (IJN) in Malaysia for a chest infection.

Samsung Electronics' ailing chairman, Lee Kun-hee, was yesterday named by South Korean police as a suspect in an 8.2 billion won ($7.5

South Korean police say Samsung Electronics Chairman Lee Kun-hee was suspected of evading tax for 8.2 billion won ($7.5 million), and of using bank accounts held by employees that held 400 billion won, Yonhap News Agency says.

A Pakistani court yesterday sentenced one person to death and five others to life imprisonment for lynching a student accused of

When North Korea's chef de mission at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics in the South visited an athletes' village fitness centre he made a

Chinese police are sporting high-tech sunglasses that can spot suspects in a crowded train station, the newest use of facial recognition

At least 33 people have tested positive for HIV in Bangarmau town of Uttar Pradesh after an unqualified medical practitioner injected some of them with an infected syringe, a government official says.

Rescuers comb through the rubble of collapsed buildings on Wednesday, some using their hands as they searched for about 145 people missing after a magnitude 6.4 earthquake struck near the popular Taiwanese tourist city of Hualien overnight.

China's continued reclamation in the South China Sea has eroded trust among claimants and could raise regional tensions, Southeast Asian foreign ministers said yesterday.

North Korea is only months away from obtaining the capability to hit US territory with a nuclear weapon and must be disarmed, a US envoy said yesterday, dismissing Pyonyang's diplomatic thaw with South Korea as a "charm offensive" that fooled no one.

A magnitude 6.4 earthquake struck just to the northeast of the city of Hualien in Taiwan tonight, the US Geological Survey says, causing a hotel to collapse and forcing the closure of a nearby highway, the government says.

Unidentified gunmen yesterday fired multiple shots at two Chinese nationals and injured one of them critically in a targeted attack in a