South Korea will hold an annual military exercise with the participation of US soldiers amid tensions on the Korean peninsula.
Wed Oct 17, 2012 9:37PM
Four Afghan soldiers, kidnapped by unknown militants a few days ago, have been found dead in Pakistan’s northwestern Khyber Agency near the border with Afghanistan, Press TV reports.
Wed Oct 17, 2012 8:55PM
A new study shows that only one in 50 people killed by US assassination drones are militants in Pakistan while the rest are innocent civilians.
Wed Oct 17, 2012 7:23PM
Islamabad has announced that contrary to US claims, 80 percent of people killed in drone attacks in the country are innocent civilians.
Wed Oct 17, 2012 3:28PM
An infuriated Japan has lodged a protest with the United States following the rape of a Japanese woman by two US sailors in Okinawa Island.
Wed Oct 17, 2012 2:29PM
Japanese Defense Minister Satoshi Morimoto has expressed anger about the “vicious crime” committed by two US military servicemen arrested on charges of raping a Japanese woman in Okinawa Island.
Wed Oct 17, 2012 9:35AM
At least 455 people have been killed over the past five weeks across Pakistan due to monsoon floods in the country, official figures show.
Wed Oct 17, 2012 8:33AM
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Taliban say they have shot down two US helicopters as the aircraft were landing inside a US base in the Paktia province in eastern Afghanistan.
Wed Oct 17, 2012 6:53AM
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A powerful car bomb has targeted a major US-run base in the Paktia province in eastern Afghanistan, injuring dozens of Afghan and US forces.
Wed Oct 17, 2012 3:3AM
Pakistan has offered a $1 million bounty for Ehsanullah Ehsan, the spokesman of the Tehrik-e Taliban Pakistan (TTP), which claimed responsibility for the assassination attempt that targeted 14-year-old activist Malala Yousafzai last week.
Tue Oct 16, 2012 3:29PM
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The US military has admitted that its airstrike on Sunday killed three children in Afghanistan’s southern Helmand Province, Press TV reports.
Tue Oct 16, 2012 2:25PM
At least 17 people have been killed in an airstrike carried out by the US-led forces in Afghanistan’s southeastern Ghazni Province, Press TV reports.
Tue Oct 16, 2012 1:47PM
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Two American servicemen have been arrested in Japan on suspicion of gang-raping a Japanese woman in the Okinawa Island, reports say.
Tue Oct 16, 2012 8:51AM
Gunmen in Pakistan have shot dead at least four Shia Muslims in the troubled southwestern province of Balochistan, Press TV reports.
Tue Oct 16, 2012 8:3AM
An Afghan intelligence agent carried out the Saturday bomb attack in southern Kandahar province, leaving two Americans and four Afghans dead, Afghan officials say.
Tue Oct 16, 2012 6:8AM
Japan's Defense Ministry says it has spotted seven Chinese naval ships in waters near a Japanese island in the East China Sea.
Tue Oct 16, 2012 3:36AM
A British hospital official says the 14-year-old Pakistani activist who was shot in the head by Tehrik-e Taliban Pakistan (TTP) militants in northern Pakistan faces a long road to recovery.
Mon Oct 15, 2012 12:5PM
Myanmar's President Thein Sein has blocked the Organization of Islamic Cooperation’s (OIC) from opening an office for Rohingya Muslims, an official says.
Mon Oct 15, 2012 11:1AM
The government of the Philippines and the separatist Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) have signed a landmark peace pact to end their decades-long conflict by 2016.
Mon Oct 15, 2012 10:38AM
A 14-year-old Pakistani human rights campaigner and peace activist shot in the head by Taliban gunmen last week has been sent to Britain for medical treatment.
Mon Oct 15, 2012 10:33AM
Armed militants have attacked a police checkpost in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar, killing at least seven security personnel including a senior officer and injuring 12 others, Press TV reports.
Mon Oct 15, 2012 9:34AM
At least three Afghan children have been killed in a new US-led airstrike in Helmand Province in southern Afghanistan, Afghan officials say, Press TV reports.
Mon Oct 15, 2012 3:3AM
Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard has flown to Afghanistan due to an increase in this year's death toll from the so-called insider attacks by Afghans on US-led forces in the country.
Mon Oct 15, 2012 2:34AM
Cambodia's former king Norodom Sihanouk, has died at the age of 89 in China, where he was receiving medical treatment, according to an announcement on national television.
Sun Oct 14, 2012 10:48PM
Tens of thousands of Pakistanis have held a demonstration in the city of Karachi in support of a 14-year-old human rights campaigner and peace activist, who was shot and critically wounded by Tehrik-e Taliban Pakistan (TTP) militants.
Sun Oct 14, 2012 12:54PM
Azeri President Ilham Aliyev says unity and cordial relations between Iran and Azerbaijani in all fields will be beneficial to regional stability.
Sun Oct 14, 2012 8:6AM
China’s top level boycott of the Annual Meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank in Japan signifies Beijing’s gesture of defiance against the West’s economic rules, economists say.
Sun Oct 14, 2012 7:58AM
The United States and Japan are considering a joint military maneuver in which their troops will simulate recapturing an uninhabited island from foreign forces, a report says.
Sun Oct 14, 2012 12:45AM
At least nine people have been killed in three different bomb attacks in southern Afghanistan, officials say.
Sun Oct 14, 2012 12:24AM
A Pakistani military spokesman says the 14-year-old activist who was shot by Tehrik-e Taliban Pakistan (TTP) militants in northern Pakistan has shown signs of improvement by moving her limbs.
Sat Oct 13, 2012 7:4PM
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A US-led soldier serving with the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) has been killed in an explosion in southern Afghanistan.
Sat Oct 13, 2012 1:44PM
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A US-led soldier, a civil worker and four Afghan security agents have been killed in a Taliban attack in southern Afghanistan, International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) says.
Sat Oct 13, 2012 10:42AM
Japanese protesters have marched in Tokyo to express their anger at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) policies as the institution is holding an annual meeting with the World Bank in the nation’s capital.
Sat Oct 13, 2012 9:30AM
Two foreigners have been reported missing, feared abducted by armed militants, in Afghanistan’s Maidan Wardak Province, Afghan police say.
Sat Oct 13, 2012 9:16AM
Taliban militants have threatened to kill Malala Yousufzai’s father Ziauddin after an attempt to assassinate the 14-year-old Pakistani human rights campaigner and peace activist failed.
Sat Oct 13, 2012 8:29AM
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At least 15 people have been killed and 25 others injured after a bomb explosion ripped through a market in a restive area of northwest Pakistan.
Sat Oct 13, 2012 6:5AM
Thousands of people have taken to the streets in the Bangladeshi capital of Dhaka to protest against a US-made film that insults Islam’s most revered figure, Prophet Mohammad (PBUH).
Sat Oct 13, 2012 5:29AM
At least 14 people, including 10 suspected Taliban militants, have been killed in a night airstrike by US-led NATO forces targeting a residential area in Afghanistan’s eastern province of Ghazni, Press TV reports.
Sat Oct 13, 2012 3:18AM
Demonstrations have been held in Islamabad, Karachi, and Lahore to condemn the recent attack on a 14-year-old Pakistani girl, who was shot in the head by Tehrik-e Taliban Pakistan (TTP) militants on Tuesday, Press TV reports.
Fri Oct 12, 2012 6:4PM
The operator of Japan’s Fukushima nuclear plant Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) has admitted that the plant meltdown disaster was not unavoidable.
Fri Oct 12, 2012 5:8PM
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A major US airbase in Afghanistan has come under rocket attack while a US-led airstrike has killed four Afghan civilians in the east of the war-ravaged country, Press TV reports
Fri Oct 12, 2012 11:3AM
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Pakistani lawyers have called for a strike against a recent attempt to assassinate a Shia lawyer in the southern port city of Karachi, Press TV reports.
Fri Oct 12, 2012 10:38AM
At least three members of Pakistani security forces have been killed and another wounded in a bomb attack in the southwestern province of Balochistan, Press TV reports.
Fri Oct 12, 2012 9:1AM
A 22-year-old Georgian soldier serving with the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) has been killed in Afghanistan.
Fri Oct 12, 2012 4:8AM
At least 20 people have lost their lives and some 1,500 fishermen gone missing as a result of tropical storms in Bangladesh's southern coastal islands and districts.
Fri Oct 12, 2012 3:8AM
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An earthquake measuring 6.9 on the Richter scale has struck off eastern Indonesia near the Aru islands, but there were no immediate reports of casualties or damage.
Thu Oct 11, 2012 8:58PM
At least nine people have been killed and 22 others wounded in a bomb explosion in the province of Baluchistan in southwestern Pakistan.
Thu Oct 11, 2012 5:38PM
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Pakistan has lodged a protest with the US Embassy over Washington’s deadly assassination drone strikes, saying that the attacks are in violation of international law.
Thu Oct 11, 2012 4:29PM
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US-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) says a US-led soldier has been killed in an attack by militants in southern Afghanistan.
Thu Oct 11, 2012 2:55PM
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A US assassination drone strike has killed at least 16 people in Pakistan's northwestern tribal region, Press TV reports.