For the first time this year, the United States has sent two warships through the strategic Taiwan Strait, according to the Taiwanese government. The move risks further heightening tensions with China, which considers Taiwan

The Afghan Taliban has named one of its co-founders as the leader of its political office in Qatar, as part of a major reshuffle that comes as talks with the United States to end the

Rescuers in Indonesia are racing to find more than two dozen people still missing after torrential rains unleashed flash floods and landslides that killed at least 30 people in South Sulawesi province, according to officials. Thousands

Rights group Amnesty International has said Egyptians are facing an unprecedented attack on freedom of expression. Egyptian authorities detained at least 113 people in 2018 for peacefully expressing their views, Amnesty International said in

Dozens of Congolese Ebola survivors are dispelling rumours and caring for patients and lone children in the world's second-deadliest outbreak, health workers said on Thursday. The virus is spreading fast in eastern Democratic Republic

BRUSSELS, BEIRUT: Syrian President Bashar Assad has suspended special multiple-entry visas for EU diplomats to Damascus. “We are continuing as the EU ... to do whatever we can to avoid it having an impact

JERUSALEM: Israeli Prosecutors on Thursday charged a 16-year-old Israeli with manslaughter after he allegedly threw a stone at a car in the occupied West Bank and killed a Palestinian woman. Prosecutors announced the indictment

WASHINGTON: The United States on Thursday imposed sanctions on two Iranian militias made up of Afghan and Pakistani refugees, including children, and sent as “cannon fodder” to Syria battlefields. The Fatemiyoun Division and Zaynabiyoun

Politicians in the United States have discussed a temporary funding proposal aimed at ending a record-long partial federal government shutdown, after two competing measures to terminate the impasse fell short in the Senate. A

The partial US government shutdown hit the one-month mark on Monday with no sign of ending any time soon. Since before it started, there have been public feuds, high-stakes meetings, threats and rallies. As