South Asia
Pakistani Taliban splits into two amid infighting
A major faction of the Pakistani Taliban on Wednesday announced it was splitting from the militant outfit following bloody clashes with a ...Pregnant Pakistani woman stoned to death by her family
A woman was stoned to death by her own family in front of a Pakistani high court on Tuesday for marrying the ...US plans full Afghan withdrawal by end of 2016
President Obama announced Tuesday that he aims to keep 9,800 U.S. troops in Afghanistan after the war formally ends later this year, ...Dozens of pro-Russian separatists killed in Ukraine airport battle
At least 50 people, including civilians and pro-Russian fighters, have been killed during a 24-hour bloodbath in the eastern Ukraine city of ...At least 40 dead in India passenger train crash
At least 40 people are dead and more than 150 injured, after a passenger express train slammed into a stationary freight train ...Karzai refused to meet Obama at Bagram Air Base, says US official
Afghan President Hamid Karzai was offered a meeting with President Barack Obama at Bagram Air Base outside Kabul but declined, a US ...President Barack Obama makes surprise visit to Afghanistan
President Barack Obama has made an unannounced visit to Afghanistan this Memorial Day weekend, arriving under the cover of darkness Sunday night ...Gunmen attack Indian Consulate in Afghanistan
Four heavily armed insurgents attacked the Indian consulate in western Afghanistan\'s main city near the border with Iran on Friday, wounding at ...Pakistan jets target Taliban militants, kill 32
Pakistani fighter jets killed at least 32 people in an attack on military hideouts in the tribal region of North Waziristan on ...Narendra Modi wins landslide victory in Indian election
India\'s opposition leader Narendra Modi and his party won national elections in a landslide Friday, preliminary results showed, driving the long-dominant Congress ...