U.S. President Donald Trump said Thursday he didn't know if Austin Tice, an American journalist missing in Syria since 2012, was still alive. "If he's alive, we would like to get him back," Trump told reporters at the White House. "We're working very hard with Syria to get him out," the...

Saudi Arabia announced 50 billion riyals ($13.3 billion) in budget spending cuts after the crash in oil prices and the coronavirus outbreak wreaked havoc on its public finances. As the kingdom doubled down in its price war with Russia, authorities signed off on expenditure reductions...

India banned incoming international flights on Thursday, restricted public gatherings and blocked roads to seal Kashmir after the insurgency-torn region reported its first coronavirus infection. Elsewhere in densely populated South Asia, Sri Lanka postponed parliamentary elections as the...

The Taliban should commit to a ceasefire as a way of tackling the novel coronavirus, Afghanistan's defence minister said Thursday, while also vowing that security forces would respond to continued insurgent attacks. "Our proposal is that to prevent this plague, a ceasefire should come, so...