Jakarta's Christian governor may escape jail for alleged blasphemy after prosecutors recommended probation, a day after he lost an election to remain governor.
The recommendation on Thursday of two years' probation in the trial of Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, with a possible one-year jail term if he commits a crime during that period, was lighter than expected as he could have been sent to prison...
The number of ISIL fighters killed after the United States' army dropped its largest non-nuclear bomb was at least 90, Afghan officials said on Saturday, raising a death toll of 36 reported a day earlier.
Dubbed the "Mother Of All Bombs", the 9,797kg GBU-43 Massive Ordnance Air Blast (MOAB) was unleashed in combat for the first time on Thursday, engulfing a remote area of eastern Nangarhar...
North Korea will not stand by and watch the United States launch a preemptive strike, a Pyongyang foreign ministry official said Friday.
In an interview with Chinese state tabloid Global Times, North Korea's director of the foreign ministry's Asia department said there are no "empty words" when Pyongyang vows to strike back.
"The Korean peninsula at present is a tinderbox at risk of war...
The U.S. Air Force dropped its largest non-nuclear bomb for the first time in combat on Thursday, targeting an underground Islamic State complex in a desolate portion of eastern Afghanistan, military officials said.
The 21,000-pound bomb is known as the Massive Ordinance Air Blast bomb, or MOAB. In military circles, the acronym is known better as the "Mother of All Bombs."
CNN, which first...
North Korea may be preparing for its next nuclear test at its site in Punggye-ri.
Commercial satellite images taken Wednesday indicate ongoing activity around the North Portal, new activity in a main area and the presence of personnel at Punggye-ri's command center, according to 38 North, a Johns Hopkins University website dedicated to North Korea issues.
A "small vehicle or trailer" can be...
China has ordered its military to be on nationwide alert, in addition to areas near the North Korea border, as tensions escalate on the peninsula.
The Information Center for Human Rights and Democracy, a nongovernmental organization in Hong Kong, said Beijing has ordered troops at all five military "regions" to maintain preparedness because of the situation in North Korea, according to...
North Korean agents may have been responsible for the death of a Myanmar national after the 1983 Rangoon bombing and assassination attempt against South Korean President Chun Doo-hwan.
More than 230,000 pages of South Korean foreign ministry documents declassified on Tuesday show Seoul's diplomats inquiring into the death of the daughter of a judge in Myanmar more than three decades ago, Segye...
North Korea is stepping up its tourism efforts, but an aggressive new policy is not making Chinese visitors happy.
According to a source in North Hamgyong Province, North Korea has been mobilizing university students majoring in tourism to boost economic development, Radio Free Asia reported Monday.
"Beginning in March, authorities have been instructing young female agents, disguised as...
Christian churchgoers in China were recently wounded after fighting with officials enforcing new regulations: the installation of surveillance cameras inside churches.
The ordinance to place closed-circuit television cameras in Protestant and Roman Catholic churches was issued in late 2016 by authorities in Zhejiang Province, South China Morning Post reported Monday.
The law comes two years...
Twenty people were slain, including five members of one family, in a Sufi shrine in Pakistan early Sunday.
Custodian Abdul Waheed and four accomplices were arrested after the massacre in Sargodha, Pakistan's Punjab province, about 125 miles from Lahore, police said.
Deputy Commissioner Liaqut Ali Chatha said it appeared visitors who had gone to the shrine to be cleansed were drugged, then...
