RIYADH — Saudi Minister of Foreign Affairs Prince Faisal bin Farhan held on Friday phone calls with Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Pakistan Mohammad Ishaq Dar and Turkish Minister of Foreign Affairs Hakan Fidan.
During the (...)
Heavy rains and snowfall triggered flash floods in several areas of Afghanistan, killing at least 17 people and injuring 11 others, according to authorities.
The dead included five members of a family in a property where the roof collapsed on (...)
GAZA — The foreign ministers of Saudi Arabia, Jordan, the United Arab Emirates, Indonesia, Pakistan, Türkiye, Qatar and Egypt on Friday expressed deep concern over the rapidly deteriorating humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip.
They warned that (...)
DOHA — Saudi Arabia's Minister Plenipotentiary at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Dr. Manal Radwan, said on Saturday that meaningful peace cannot be achieved without reforming the Israeli government, warning that "spoilers" seeking to divert or (...)
RIYADH — The foreign ministers of Saudi Arabia and seven other Islamic countries reiterated their absolute rejection of any attempts to expel the Palestinian people of Gaza from their land.
In a joint statement, the foreign ministers of Saudi (...)
Border clashes have erupted again between Pakistan and Afghanistan's Taliban forces, with each side accusing the other of violating a fragile ceasefire along the 1,600-mile (2,600 km) frontier.
Residents fled the Afghan border city of Spin Boldak (...)
Russian President Vladimir Putin is starting a two-day visit to India, where he will meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi and attend an annual summit held by both countries.
Delhi and Moscow are expected to sign a number of deals during the visit, (...)
JEDDAH — Minister of Islamic Affairs, Call and Guidance Sheikh Abdullatif Al-Sheikh received Pakistan's Minister of Religious Affairs and Interfaith Harmony Sardar Muhammad Yousaf Zaman in Jeddah on Thursday.
They discussed a number of topics of (...)
Sheikh Hasina, the ousted Prime Minister of Bangladesh, has been sentenced to death after being found guilty of crimes against humanity for the violent suppression of student protests last year that led to the collapse of her government.
A panel of (...)
For the complex legacy of M.F. Husain, one of 20th-century India's most important artists, this year has been a tale of two auctions.
In March, one of the late painter's monumental depictions of rural life, the 14-foot-long "Untitled (Gram Yatra)," (...)
RIYADH — Saudi Arabia welcomed the signing of an immediate ceasefire agreement by Pakistan and Afghanistan. The Kingdom also hailed the establishment of mechanisms aimed at consolidating lasting peace and stability between the two countries during (...)
Fresh fighting broke out along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border early on Wednesday, with each side accusing the other of initiating deadly clashes.
Pakistan's military said its forces had killed "15-20 Afghan Taliban" and injured many in Spin Boldak (...)
India's cricketers refused to shake hands with Pakistan after their first meeting since the conflict between the two nations earlier this year, Pakistan coach Mike Hesson has claimed.
India cruised to a seven-wicket victory at the Asia Cup in Dubai, (...)
More than two million people have been evacuated in Pakistan's Punjab province as floods sweep the country's eastern region, authorities said.
Another 150,000 have been evacuated in Sindh province, national disaster management chief Inam Haider (...)
Internet access in parts of Asia and the Middle East was disrupted after undersea cables in the Red Sea were cut, experts said Sunday, though the cause of the incident remains unclear.
The outages have raised concerns about possible sabotage amid (...)
It was a scene that might have provoked outrage in Brussels.
Narendra Modi, the prime minister of India, joyfully holding hands with Vladimir Putin, the president of Russia and chief promoter of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, while attending (...)
Fifteen people were killed and more than 30 others were wounded in a suicide bombing near a political rally in Pakistan, authorities said.
Hundreds of members of the Balochistan National Party (BNP) had gathered for a rally at a stadium in Quetta, (...)
Chinese leader Xi Jinping and North Korea's Kim Jong Un have sat down for formal talks in Beijing, a day after the pair and Russia's Vladimir Putin put on an unprecedented show of unity against the West at a massive military parade.
Xi and Kim began (...)
Afghanistan's Taliban rulers have called for international help after a huge earthquake killed hundreds of people and leveled entire villages, piling further misery on the war-ravaged country that was already grappling with food shortages and cuts (...)
US President Donald Trump says India has offered to cut its tariffs "to nothing" even as he called the current trade stalemate with the country "a totally one sided disaster".
US tariffs of 50% on goods from India — which includes 25% penalty for (...)
Rescuers are using helicopters to search for survivors in the ruins of remote villages in eastern Afghanistan after a powerful earthquake killed 800 people and injured 1,800 others.
Many are feared trapped under the rubble of their homes after the (...)
Two sisters seeking to become Indian citizens are currently stateless after failing to procure a document that could prove that they have renounced their citizenship of Pakistan.
The sisters, who have been living in India's Kerala state since 2008, (...)
More than 200 people were killed and hundreds more injured when a 6.0-magnitude earthquake hit Afghanistan's eastern region on Sunday, according to state-run media.
Rescue workers have been mobilized in several districts of the mountainous region, (...)
RIYADH — The Ministry of Foreign Affairs expressed Saudi Arabia's sincere condolences and sympathy to the families of the deceased in the devastating earthquake that struck eastern Afghanistan, resulting in a number of casualties.
In a statement, (...)
Chinese leader Xi Jinping made a veiled swipe at the United States on Monday as he criticized "bullying practices" and cast his country as a new leader of world governance, at a time when President Donald Trump's America First foreign policy is (...)
