SYDNEY: Australia is following the United States and evacuating embassy staff from strife-torn Iraq, officials said Monday. “Due to the…

BAGHDAD: Iraq yesterday pressed a counter-offensive against militants who have seized a swathe of the country, as the United States …

BERLIN: German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier warned yesterday that the bloody conflict in Iraq could quickly spin into a regional…

BEIJING: China has begun building a school on the contested Paracel islands, state media reported, as the Asian giant further…

MANILA: The Philippines’ national cultural commission is objecting to a liquor company’s plans to use the names of national heroes…

PAKISTAN: Pakistani fighter jets launched airstrikes early Sunday against militant hideouts in the country’s troubled northwest, killing dozens of insurgents,…

KABUL: Millions of Afghans turned out to vote on Saturday in a presidential run-off election despite Taliban threats and violence…

DAMASCUS: A bomb attack targeting a weapons bazaar in eastern Syria near the Iraqi border killed 30 “terrorists” on Saturday,…