The commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan said on Friday that the Kabul government's peace deal with warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar was an "encouraging" step that would bring a long-time belligerent into reconciliation with the government. Army General John Nicholson told reporters at the...

Goldman Sachs (GS.N) is cutting almost 30 percent of its 300 investment banking jobs in Asia outside Japan in response to a slowdown in activity in the region, two sources familiar with the matter told Reuters. The Wall Street bank is reducing the number of bankers working on mergers and...

Three Thai policemen were killed and two wounded on Friday in a bomb and gun attack in the southern province of Yala where Muslim separatists have been waging a simmering insurgency against the state. The attack came just over a month after a series of bombs in three of Thailand's main...

“We have no permission for go out. Now we are prison [sic],” a 17-year-old Pakistani migrant texted, along with a sad emoji face, locked inside a refugee camp on the Greek island of Lesbos. Just under a hundred minors aged 12 to 17 find shelter in the rooms reserved for them. “We have...