At least four Afghans were killed and two others injured in a suicide attack in Garmsir district of the southern Helmand province on Sunday, local police said.
Conflicts have left 27 people including 13 militants and 14 police dead in Afghanistan over the past 24 hours, officials said on Monday.
Afghan security forces in crackdown against the Taliban outfit have killed 10 armed insurgents in the eastern Kunar province and captured a Taliban shadowy district governor in the northern Baghlan province over the past two days, officials said Wednesday.
Amid Taliban desperate attempt to overrun Maimana city, the capital of northern Faryab province 425 km northwest of the national capital of Kabul city, 130 Taliban rebels renounced violence and gave up fighting in the province on Sunday, Faryab provincial governor said.
Two pilots were killed when an air craft of Nepal's Kasthamandap Air crashed on Friday with 11 aboard.
An Explosion in the construction of a power plant in North Sumatra, Indonesia killed 7 workers and seriously wounded 6 others, a senior official from the disaster management agency said on Thursday.
A missing aircraft of Tara Airlines in Nepal, which was carrying 23 people on board including 20 passengers and three crew members, is believed to have crashed in Myagdi district.
The closure of the Kalijodo red light district in North and West Jakarta is just one stage in the government’s ambition to close down all 168 such areas across the country by 2019 as part of its efforts to eradicate prostitution.
The Islamic State (IS) militant group has claimed responsibility for the deadly bombings, which rocked the central province of Homs and the capital Damascus on Sunday, killing over 107 people.
Afghan conflicts have claimed the lives of 27 armed militants from both Taliban and Islamic State (IS) groups; while 11 others laid down arms in the militancy-hit country since Tuesday, officials said Wednesday.
Indonesian rescuers have discovered 5 bodies and are still searching for 2 others after landslides hit Purworejo district of Central Java on Friday night, rescuer said here on Saturday.
Some 44 militants have been killed amid cleanup operations conducted by Afghan security forces since early Saturday, the country's Defense Ministry said on Sunday.
The Islamic State (IS) has claimed responsibility for three deadly bombings that rocked a Shiite district south of the capital Damascus on Sunday, killing over 76 people.
Seven policemen were killed and six others injured in an attack by suspected leftwing rebels in the Palamu district of the central Indian state of Jharkhand Wednesday evening, said local media.
Afghan security forces, after days of fierce clashes with Taliban, retook the control of Darqad district bordering Tajikistan on Sunday morning, an official said.
Air strike kills Pakistani Taliban commander in E. Afghanistan: officials
The result of Hong Kong's fifth District Council Election was unveiled on Monday, when political organizations contested for the election pledged to continue to strive to serve the public and to attract more young contestants in the future.
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