The Islamic State group on Saturday released a video that shows militants smashing artefacts at the ancient Assyrian city of Nimrud in northern Iraq before blowing up the site.

Supporters of jailed former Maldives president Mohamed Nasheed held an underwater protest on Saturday to push for the release of the tropical archipelago's first democratically elected leader, after he was ...

US President Barack Obama has greeted Bangladeshis and Bangla speaking people across the world ahead of Pahela Boishakh.

The United States President Barack Obama and Cuba's Raul Castro shook hands and sat near each other Friday at a historic Summit of the Americas, a new milestone in efforts ...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday (5 April) denounced the agreement between Tehran and world powers as a ‘bad deal,’ as Barack Obama affirmed his support for long-time ally ...

Iran's foreign minister said that Tehran would be able to return to its nuclear activities if the West withdraws from a pact that is to be finalised in June. Foreign minister ...

At least four people were killed when suspected Boko Haram fighters raided a local market in a village near the northeast Nigerian city of Maiduguri, security sources said.

Two road accidents killed 26 people and injured nine others in two Chinese provinces over the weekend, according to state media and local authorities. A bus plunged into a river in ...

n Iraq's Tikrit, liberation from the Islamic State group comes at a heavy price, both in loss of life and in the sheer devastation the militants leave in their wake. Much ...

Pope Francis on Friday condemned the attack by Islamic militants on a Kenyan university as an act of "senseless brutality" and called for those responsible to change their violent ways. ...

This week's framework nuclear deal with Iran was also good for boosting relations between China and the United States, Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi said in a call with US ...

Well-wishers hailed Iran's nuclear negotiators as they returned to Tehran yesterday from reaching a potentially historic framework deal with world powers, but Israel warned it was a "very dangerous" step.

On 1 April, the city of Tikrit was liberated from the extremist group Islamic State. The Shi'ite-led central government and allied militias, after a month-long battle, had expelled the barbarous ...

Three hundred inmates from a prison in Yemen have been freed by al-Qaeda, after the Islamists stormed the jail in which they were held, reports The Telegraph, UK.

 Saudi-led coalition warplanes bombed Shia rebel positions on Wednesday across Yemen as a missile strike on a dairy factory killed 35 workers, authorities said, as both sides disputed who fired ...

France's foreign minister said on Wednesday that Iran still had to make more effort to reach a preliminary political accord, but Tehran and the six powers were in the final ...

Former military ruler Muhammadu Buhari has become the first opposition candidate to win a presidential election in Nigeria,Incumbent Goodluck Jonathan telephoned Gen Buhari, 72, on Tuesday night to congratulate him ...

Myanmar peace negotiators agreed the draft text of a historic nationwide ceasefire agreement on Monday, as the country edges closer to ending decades of conflict between ethnic minority groups and ...

A new smartphone app developed in Seoul aims to help North Korean refugees overcome one of the biggest challenges they face in adjusting to life in South Korea -- speaking ...

- Foreign ministers from major powers kicked off early Wednesday a final scheduled day of talks aimed at securing the outlines of a potentially historic nuclear deal with Iran by ...