Kabul - The Afghan government on Thursday announced an eight-day ceasefire with the Taliban in response to a historic ruling issued by hu...
Representational Image Kabul - At least nine militants of the Haqqani militant group were killed following air strikes in Afghanistan...
Representational Shot Mazar-e-Sharif (Afghanistan) - At least 17 people were killed and 23 others wounded after heavy torrential rain...
File photo of Malala Yousafzai Credit - Reuters Islamabad - Pakistani Nobel laureate and education activist Malala Yousafzai arrived ...
Beijing : A total of 431 people have been confirmed dead after rescuers lifted a Chinese cruise ship that capsized on the Yangtze river ...
Kenya's National Disaster Operations Center says all students are now accounted for at Garissa University College where 147 people were...
At least 57 people, including women and children, were killed when an oil tanker apparently speeding in the wrong direction down a Pakista...
New Dehli - The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has released a new video accusing the Pakistani Army of attacking the 'Mujahideens...
Pakistan's government has been at pains in the last week to show that it can tackle militancy. After a daylong meeting with the cou...
SYDNEY -- Five hostages have been released from a Sydney cafe, which has been held siege by an armed man showing Islamic flags on Monda...
A Palestinian minister has died shortly after being hit by Israeli soldiers during a protest in the occupied West Bank, medical and securi...
Syria - The Syrian government has been accused of using chlorine gas against the Islamic State of the Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), the lat...
More than half a million people in the Philippines have fled from a powerful typhoon in one of the world's biggest peacetime evacuatio...
A Nasa image showing the launch of Orion and Delta IV heavy rocket at Cape Canaveral, Florida, USA, earlier on Friday. The vessel orbited...
LAHORE: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has rejected the use of a bulletproof car provided by India for next week’s summit of South Asian lead...
KARACHI: At least 57 people, including 18 children, were killed Tuesday when a bus collided with a goods truck loaded with coal in southe...
Boko Haram laughed off Nigeria's announcement of a ceasefire agreement, saying there is no such deal and the abducted schoolgirls hav...
HALDUMMULLA - All hopes of finding survivors under the mud and rubble of a landslide in south-central Sri Lanka had run out by first light...
LAGOS, Nigeria — More than 200 missing schoolgirls kidnapped by the Islamic extremist group Boko Haram may be released as part of an immedi...
International donors pledged more than $5 billion to help rebuild Gaza during a conference in Cairo over the weekend. The total pledge...
