U.S.-led coalition troops battled a group of militants in eastern Afghanistan, killing over 30 insurgents, while three NATO soldiers were killed in a roadside blast...

The U.S.-led coalition says over 30 militants were killed in a battle with its troops in eastern Afghanistan.

Oil prices rose Thursday in Asia above $116 a barrel as investors mulled a fall in U.S. gasoline inventories and a possible output tightening by OPEC at its next...

NATO says three of its soldiers were killed when their vehicle struck a roadside bomb in central Afghanistan.

Police say at least 74 people have been killed as heavy monsoon rains lash northern India.

Japan’s trade surplus in July fell 86.6 percent from a year earlier as spending on imports grew because of higher prices for oil and other commodities, the...

A hacker broke into a Homeland Security Department telephone system over the weekend and racked up about $12,000 in calls to the Middle East and Asia.

Two elderly Chinese women who applied to hold a protest during the Olympics were ordered to spend a year in a labor camp, a relative said Wednesday. Police later...

Perched on a stool beside a roadside fruit stand piled high with melons and pears in farming country north of Shanghai, Meng Zhoucui conceded she’s not a big...

The Sri Lankan military says it has broken through the Tamil Tigers’ defenses in recent weeks, ending a prolonged stalemate and stirring predictions of an...

Drawing strength from the chaos in neighboring Pakistan, Afghan insurgents are using their growing control of the border area to plot increasingly brazen attacks...

Hua Guofeng, who briefly ruled China as communist founder Mao Zedong’s successor but was pushed aside as a prelude to reforms that launched an economic boom, died...

Hua Guofeng, who briefly ruled China as communist founder Mao Zedong’s successor but was pushed aside by Deng Xiaoping as a prelude to reforms that launched an...

The official Xinhua News Agency says former Chinese leader Hua Guofeng has died at the age of 87.

Police using tear gas and batons clashed with Hindu protesters defying a fresh curfew in Indian Kashmir on Wednesday, injuring at least 25 people, medics and witnesses...

Myanmar’s main opposition party says it has been told that U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will visit in December to hold talks on the country’s...

Morning train commuters in Tokyo were joined on their way to work by an unusual companion Wednesday: a wild monkey.

The U.S. on Wednesday offered to help Pakistanis displaced by an army operation against Islamic militants in a northwest tribal region bordering Afghanistan.

A major opposition party on Wednesday backed Benazir Bhutto’s widower to become Pakistan’s president, as the power struggle following the resignation of...

International and domestic flights were disrupted across India on Wednesday as thousands of airport employees went on strike to protest plans to privatize airports,...