South Asia
Rohingya flee refugee camps in Bangladesh, as Myanmar prepares for first returnees
Dozens of Rohingya Muslim families on a list of refugees set to be repatriated to Myanmar later this week have fled from ...Anti-India strike shuts Kashmir amid anger over deaths
Armed soldiers and police fanned out across much of Indian-controlled Kashmir on Monday as separatists challenging Indian rule called for a general ...Afghanistan braces for militant attacks as voters go to the polls
Afghans are bracing for more deadly violence on Saturday as voters turn out for the long-delayed legislative election across the war-torn country ...UN sends Sri Lanka peacekeeping commander home over alleged atrocities
The United Nations has asked Sri Lanka to immediately repatriate a commander serving in the peacekeeping force in Mali following allegations that ...At least 59 killed as train hits crowd in northern India
A commuter train traveling at high speed ran through a crowd of people on the rail tracks in northern India killing at ...At least 32 killed in suicide attack on Afghan protesters
A suicide attack on protesters in eastern Afghanistan on Tuesday killed at least 32 people, officials said, as an uptick in violence ...Afghan Taliban announces death of Haqqani network leader
The founder of the Haqqani network, one of Afghanistan\'s most effective and feared militant groups, has died after a long illness, their ...Counting ongoing in suspenseful Pakistan election
Vote-counting was ongoing Wednesday in a knife-edge Pakistan general election as former cricket hero Imran Khan sought power on a day marred ...U.S., Afghan forces clear Islamic State from eastern district
U.S. and Afghan Special Forces are completing an operation to clear Islamic State fighters from a remote district in Nangarhar, the eastern ...Afghanistan announces Eid ceasefire with Taliban until June 20
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani on Thursday announced for the first time an unconditional ceasefire with the Taliban, coinciding with the end of ...




