Unidentified militants set ablaze a girls’ school in Afghanistan`s eastern Kunar province Tuesday night, police said. According to Daoud Barakzai, an officer at the provincial police department, militants broke into a school in Sawan, a remote village of Dangam district,...

(Anadolu News Agency)- Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant militants killed five senior Iraqi army officers by firing squad in western Mosul, security sources said Wednesday. The sources did not disclose any further information as to why the officers...

 Hundreds of nationalist Buddhists took to the streets of Yangon on Wednesday to protest a government decision that could allow Rohingya Muslims to vote in a constitutional referendum. The Arakan Youth Organisation and the Myanmar National Network...

Eight people were killed and at least 28 others were injured in attacks across the Iraqi capital of Baghdad on Wednesday, police said. "Five people were killed and 13 others were injured in mortar strikes at residential areas in al-Shu’ala district in northwestern...