Afghan official: Mortar attack in Kandahar kills 5 people – Times of India
KABUL: A mortar shell struck a taxi in Afghanistan's southern Kandahar province on Sunday, killing at least five civilians including...
KABUL: A mortar shell struck a taxi in Afghanistan's southern Kandahar province on Sunday, killing at least five civilians including...
KATHMANDU: Nepal's newly-appointed Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba and CPN-Maoist Centre chief Pushpa Kamal Dahal 'Prachanda' have agreed to expand...
DHAKA: Six people have died and seven others were injured as a speeding truck fell into a ditch in Bangladesh's...
YANGON: Myanmar's junta chief said on Sunday that elections would be held and a state of emergency lifted by August...
KANDAHAR: Afghan government forces struggled against Taliban assaults on several major cities on Sunday as the insurgents stepped up a...
STEINKOPF, South Africa — On a moonless night in the desert in the far west of South Africa, Avrill Kaffer...
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COLOMBO: All public servants in Sri Lanka have been asked to return to work from Monday despite warnings from health...
KABUL: Afghan security forces and Taliban fighters have been locked in heavy clashes for the last two days after the...
WASHINGTON: Some 200 Afghans were set to begin new lives in the United States on Friday as an airlift got...
BANGKOK: With Coronavirus deaths rising in Myanmar, allegations are growing from residents and human rights activists that the military government,...
COZ'S BAZAR, BANGLADESH: Monsoon floods and landslides have cut off more than 300,000 people in villages across southeast Bangladesh and...
BYAS KYUEL: The father and son stood in the forest burning around them, the elder with a shovel in hand,...
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YANGON: Imprisoned by the military, detained Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi is isolated from the young protesters now forging...
KANDAHAR: The Taliban on Thursday said they had killed an Afghan police officer, better known for posting humorous videos online,...
KABUL, AFGHANISTAN: At least 80 people were killed with 100 more missing after a flash flood tore through a village...
CHAMAN: The Taliban's capture of a key Afghan-Pakistan border post has sent trucking costs soaring, with insurgents and government officials...
KABUL: The Taliban say that 150 people have died in flooding in Afghanistan's mountainous northeastern Nuristan province. Taliban spokesman, Zabihullah...
KABUL: Afghan villagers searched desperately for survivors after flash flood swept down a narrow valley in a Taliban-controlled area, killing...
CHIANG MAI: A strong, shallow earthquake shook northern Myanmar on Thursday and was felt as far away as northern Thailand....
ISLAMABAD: Afghanistan's Taliban took responsibility this week for the killing of a comic in the country's south, raising the specter...
AFAR, Ethiopia — The road, a 300-mile strip of tarmac that passes through some of the most inhospitable terrain on...
ISLAMABAD: The US and Nato have promised to pay $4 billion a year until 2024 to finance Afghanistan's military and...
DHAKA, BANGLADESH: Days of heavy rainfall have pelted Rohingya refugee camps in southern Bangladesh, destroying dwellings and sending thousands of...
The United States is ramping up vaccine deliveries to Africa as a third wave of the pandemic continues to accelerate...
GAZIANTEP, Turkey — In the 10 years since its popular uprising set off the Arab Spring, Tunisia has often been...
As the United States and its NATO allies accelerate their final withdrawal from Afghanistan, the Taliban have retaken swathes of...
COLOMBO: A group of 11 international rights organisations led by Amnesty International on Wednesday demanded immediate and unconditional release of...
BEIJING: China's foreign minister met Wednesday with a delegation of high-level Taliban officials as ties between them warm ahead of...
KABUL: A top-level Taliban delegation visiting China assured Beijing the group will not allow Afghanistan to be used as a...
KABUL: Taliban officials have told China they will not allow Afghanistan to be used as a base by groups plotting...
KABUL: Underlining that there is no military solution to the Afghan issue, the country's President Ashraf Ghani on Wednesday said...
KABUL: Like thousands of his compatriots, Abdel Khalid Nabyar waited outside Afghanistan's main passport office to apply for the precious...
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GAUHATI: The Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan has fully vaccinated 90% of its eligible adult population within just seven days, its...
KATHMANDU: Nepal on Tuesday has confirmed infection of a new mutant of Covid-19's Delta variant as the cases continues to...
ISLAMABAD: As the security situation deteriorates amid Taliban advances, the biggest loss has been incurred by the media who are...
NAIROBI, Kenya — Days after he returned home, Ugandan authorities are detaining without charges a weight lifter who went missing...
KABUL: Four Afghan journalists were arrested by the country's intelligence service after they returned to the city of Kandahar following...
Flooding in Myanmar has displaced hundreds of people, slowing efforts to battle a fast-growing coronavirus outbreak amid the chaos that...
THIMPU: Bhutan has inoculated most of its eligible population with second doses of Covid-19 vaccinations in a week, in a...
PALU: A strong, shallow underwater earthquake shook central Indonesia on Monday but no serious damage was immediately reported and no...
NEW DELHI: A planned visit by Afghan Army chief Gen Wali Mohammad Ahmadzai to India this week has been cancelled...
MANILA: Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte is set to deliver his final state of the nation speech Monday before Congress, winding...
COLOMBO: Sri Lanka is set to toughen its child labour laws by raising the minimum age for employment to 18...
GBARAMATU, Nigeria — When the tide rose under the rickety wooden house-on-stilts of Onitsha Joseph, a fisherwoman who lives above...
KABUL: Afghan authorities on Saturday imposed a night-time curfew across 31 of the country's 34 provinces to curb surging violence...
KABUL: Over 30 Taliban terrorists were killed and 17 other suffered injuries in Afghan Air Force airstrikes in two provinces...
WASHINGTON: The US administration, led by President Joe Biden, believes lasting peace in Afghanistan is possible only through a political...
NEW DELHI: Concerns that a Taliban takeover of Afghanistan after the US pullout could see a resurgence in al-Qaida and...
GENEVA: UN human rights experts urged Unesco on Friday not to grant World Heritage Site status to a national park...
KUNAR: A total of 20 terrorists were killed as fighting planes struck Taliban hideouts and positions in Ghazi Abad district...
KABUL: The United States has carried out air strikes to support Afghan government forces who have been under pressure from...