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The Islamic State jihadist group made USD 11 million per month from "organised crime" in Iraq's Nineveh province before seizing it and capital city Mosul, a parliamentary report obtained.

Incumbent Ranil Wickremesinghe will be sworn-in as Sri Lanka's new Prime Minister on Thursday, returning to the office for a fourth term after his party won the closely contested general election.

Thai authorities on Monday, launched a hunt for a male "suspect" who may have left a bomb inside the hugely popular Lord Brahma temple in a crowded area in central Bangkok that killed at least 20 people and injured 123 others.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday held talks with Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the Crown Prince and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces, on key issues of security and trade even as the two sides looked at elevating the ties to th...

Tens of thousands of South Korean and US troops kicked off a large-scale military exercise on Monday simulating an all-out attack by North Korea, which has condemned the joint drill as a "declaration of war."

Indonesia has a patchy aviation safety record and has seen two major plane crashes in the past year, including an AirAsia flight that went down in the Java Sea, killing all on board.

Rescue work is going on to retrieve the people trapped under the building which collapsed due to the bombing.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has expressed sorrow over the death and destruction caused by twin explosions at a warehouse in China's port city of Tianjin and conveyed his condolences to the bereaved families.

Louisiana's Indian-American governor Bobby Jindal and other Republican presidential candidates have pounced upon Democratic front runner Hillary Clinton as her email saga took a new turn.

A truck bomb ripped through a market in a Shiite-majority area of north Baghdad on Thursday, killing at least 33 people, security and medical officials said.

Democratic presidential front runner Hillary Clinton will hand over her private email server, she used while serving as secretary of state, to the US Justice Department to cooperate with the government's security inquiry.

Technical experts, including from US aerospace giant Boeing, are due to begin from Wednesday examining the debris in France to determine conclusively whether it belonged to the flight.

The family of deceased Taliban leader Mullah Omar has refused to pledge allegiance to his successor, calling on religious scholars to settle a growing rift within insurgent ranks over the power transition.

The toll from flash floods and landslides in Myanmar caused by days of torrential rain is likely to rise, the UN warned on Monday, as monsoon downpours heaped misery on thousands across the region.

A spokeswoman for the Israeli army said that "a Palestinian suspect hurled a Molotov cocktail at an army post in Bir Zeit. In response to the immediate danger, the soldiers fired toward the assailant, identifying a hit".