MANILA: Philippine troops killed about a dozen members of a pro-Islamic State group in air and ground assaults this week…

YANGON: Seven Myanmar soldiers have been sentenced to jail with hard labour for their part in the extrajudicial killings of 10…

WASHINGTON: The top Republican in the US House of Representatives, Paul Ryan, has decided to retire when his term ends,…

WASHINGTON: The White House insisted Tuesday that Donald Trump has the power to fire special prosecutor Robert Mueller, stoking fears…

ALGIERS: More than 250 people including members of Western Sahara’s Polisario independence movement were killed when a military plane crashed…

ZURICH: Swiss and Italian police continued their search yesterday for German retail magnate Karl-Erivan Haub who has been missing since…

BEIJING: President Xi Jinping’s signature foreign policy plan to build a new ‘Silk Road’ of infrastructure and trade links between…

WASHINGTON: Donald Trump’s White House was hit with a fresh resignation Tuesday as his top homeland security advisor, Tom Bossert…