ISIS terror targets restive Baluchistan
Text A suicide bomber killed at least 130 at a campaign rally in Pakistan's Balochistan province— the deadliest attack in the country since 2014. A local candidate with the Balochistan Awami Party was...
View ArticleChina expands Indian Ocean military footprint
Text In addition to stationing troops on the disputed islands it claims in the South China Sea, Beijing is rapidly expanding its network of commercial ports across the Indian Ocean. This comes as...
View ArticlePakistan overturns blasphemy death sentence
Text The Supreme Court of Pakistan overturned the 2010 blasphemy conviction and death sentence of Asia Bibi, a Pakistani Catholic woman, citing failure to proffer enough evidence that Bibi indeed...
View ArticleHimalayan glaciers could be mostly gone by 2100
Text Rising temperatures in the Himalayas will melt at least one-third of the region's glaciers by the end of the century even if the world's most ambitious climate change targets are met, according...
View ArticleKashmiris under attack across India
Text As India and Pakistan exchange military strikes in the wake of last week's massive suicide blast in Kashmir, many cities across India report cases of targeted violence against Kashmiri students...
View ArticleSeparatists claim Baluchistan massacre
Text Gunmen killed at least 14 passengers after forcing them off several passenger vehicles on the coastal highway through Pakistan's restive Balochistan province. Some 20 militants apparently stopped...
View ArticleMuslim leaders had warned of Sri Lanka terror
Text ISIS claimed responsibility for the Easter Sunday attacks in Sri Lanka that left over 300 dead, and released a video purporting to show the militants behind the attacks pledging allegiance to the...
View ArticlePakistan: Taliban target Sufi shrine —again
Text At least 10 people were killed and 25 others injured in a suicide blast that targeted security forces guarding a famous Sufi shrine in the Pakistani city of Lahore. The attack, which came during...
View ArticleSri Lanka dissidents reject Buddhist fascism
Text As Sri Lanka marks the 10-year anniversary of the end of its long internal war, a new wave of communal violence has erupted following the Easter Sunday terror attacks. In days of anti-Muslim...
View ArticleNepal blasts bid to reboot Maoist insurgency?
Text Four people were killed and three others injured in three explosions in Kathmandu, a grim reminder of the Maoist insurgency the shook Nepal for a decade before a 2006 peace agreement. A dissident...
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