Chinese state media have reacted with anger and boycott threats after the board of an affiliate of South Korea’s Lotte Group approved a land swap with the government that allows authorities to deploy a …
By Saad Sayeed | ISLAMABAD Pakistan’s former military ruler, retired general Pervez Musharraf, has launched a career as a political analyst on a weekly television talk show, a prominent role for the ex-leader who …
By Martin Petty and Manuel Mogato | MANILA Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said on Tuesday he would recall some police to fight his controversial war on drugs, nearly a month after suspending the entire …
By Aye Win Myint | NAYPYITAW Myanmar’s military defended its crackdown on the Rohingya Muslim minority as a lawful counterinsurgency operation at a rare news conference on Tuesday, adding it was necessary to defend …
More than 10,000 armed police in China’s western Xinjiang region staged a mass rally in the capital Urumqi, state media said, as authorities rolled out a rapid-response air patrol system to quell unrest that …
Muslims are the fastest-growing religious group in the world. The growth and regional migration of Muslims, combined with the ongoing impact of the Islamic State (also known as ISIS or ISIL) and other extremist …
By MOKHTAR AWAD and SAMUEL TADROS Feb. 28, 2017 7:24 p.m. ET Should the U.S. designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organization? That question has once again acquired force in Washington. In recent …
By THOMAS GROVE Updated Feb. 28, 2017 12:14 p.m. ET 26 COMMENTS MOSCOW—The flagship of the Russian navy welcomed aboard a VIP as it cruised the Mediterranean in January: a Libyan general Moscow sees …
By ANANT VIJAY KALA Feb. 28, 2017 9:12 a.m. ET NEW DELHI—Growth in India’s gross domestic product slowed to a two-year low late last year as Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s sudden crackdown on the use …
Businessman Leonid Mayevsky handed over $1 million to Omurbek Tekebayev in 2 tranches, the National Security Committee chief Abdil Segizbayev told a Parliament session today.