Suhani Bunglani fans flies away from her two baby girls as one sleeps motionless while the other stares without blinking at the roof of their tent, her empty belly bulging beneath a green flowered shirt. Their newborn sister already died on the ground...

It was perhaps their first press conference — or anyway, their first public words since they helped rescue the Thanksgiving turkey from his customary fate as centerpiece of the family’s dinner table.

Taliban militants blew up a girls’ school in Pakistan’s Khyber district on Tuesday, the third such attack in the tribal region bordering Afghanistan so far this month, officials said. An intelligence official in the area said Taliban...

Troops fought militants on three fronts and fighter jets bombed insurgent positions near the Afghan border Monday as Pakistan pressed ahead with an assault on the country’s main Taliban and al-Qaida stronghold. The army and the Pakistani Taliban...

With less than two weeks to go until national elections, the Afghan President, Hamid Karzai, is trying to cut a secret deal with one of his rivals to knock out his leading contender and ensure a decisive victory to avoid the chaos that a tight result...

A bomb in a mosque in south-east Iran has killed at least 19 people and injured 60, the governor of Sistan-Baluchestan province said. The explosion happened in Zahedan, the provincial capital, at the time of evening prayer, Ali Mohammad Azad told...

Officials in the western Indian state of Maharashtra say nine farmers have committed suicide over the past week. Reports said the farmers from the Vidarbha region killed themselves because they could not repay debts. Farm activists say despite recent...

Islamabad: Pakistan’s new government will review the country’s role in the US-led “war on terror,” former Pakistani premier Nawaz Sharif said on Tuesday after holding talks with a top American envoy. Deputy US Secretary of State...