South Asia
Afghan Taliban appoints new leader
The Taliban have chosen supreme leader Mullah Omar\'s deputy to replace him, two militant commanders said on Thursday, as Pakistan announced that ...India hangs Mumbai blasts convict 22 years after attack
India hanged Yakub Memon on Thursday for his role in the country\'s deadliest bombings, which killed 257 people in Mumbai in 1993, ...30 killed in Nepal as monsoon rains spark landslides
Landslides caused by heavy rains buried several mountain villages in Nepal on Thursday, killing at least 30 people, and bad weather was ...Afghanistan says Taliban leader dead, urges peace talks
Afghanistan said on Wednesday that Mullah Omar, elusive leader of the Taliban movement behind an escalating insurgency against the government in Kabul, ...Pakistan police kill leader of Lashkar-e-Jhangvi group
Pakistani police killed the leader of the sectarian militant group Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, his two sons and 11 others on Wednesday in a shootout ...Afghanistan wedding shooting kills 21
Armed men opened fire at a wedding ceremony in northern Afghanistan, killing at least 21 guests and wounding eight, provincial officials said ...Nine killed in day-long Indian gun battle near Pakistani border
Indian police overcame a group of gunmen dressed in military fatigues on Monday after a 12-hour battle that ended in a small-town ...Monsoon troubles Nepal quake survivors three months on
As dark clouds loomed overhead, Rabi Baral hurriedly secured his tent to the ground at a camp for victims of Nepal\'s earthquake, ...Deadly flash floods in Pakistan damage roads and crops
Flash flooding caused by torrential monsoon rains has killed at least 28 in Pakistan and affected hundreds of thousands of people, according ...US air strike kills top Al-Qaeda commander in Afghanistan
A US air strike in Afghanistan killed a senior Al-Qaeda commander in charge of suicide bombing and two other militants, the Pentagon ...




