A total of 67 people were killed, including 15 border guards, in clashes with Islamic State (IS) militants across Iraq on Monday, while the Iraqi forces recaptured seven villages in eastern the country, security sources said.
At least 45 people were killed and 60 others wounded after a suicide bomb attack shocked a volleyball ground in Yahya Khel district of Paktika province, eastern Afghanistan, on Sunday evening, officials confirmed.
Dozens of U.S. military advisors arrived in Iraq on Wednesday to train the country's security forces as they continue to face obstacles in their fight against the Islamic State (IS) militant group, officials said.
A total of 38 people, including two senior police officers, were killed and some 141 others wounded in separate bomb attacks across Iraq on Sunday, security sources said.
Rescuers have discovered 17 dead bodies after a boat sank in waters off East Java province on Tuesday, and would continue search and rescue operation on Thursday to find the rest missing people, official said here on Wednesday evening.
A total of 11 people have been killed by typhoon Rammasun in Vietnam as of Monday morning, said Vietnam' s National Steering Committee for Flood and Storm Prevention and Control.
The Thai military junta on Sunday announced to lift the curfew in Koh Chang of Trat province, Hat Yai of Songkhla province and Koh Pangan of Surat Thani province, all popular tourist destinations.
High-ranking officials confirmed dead in the mishap include Minister of Defense Douangchay Phichit, who was also Deputy Prime Minister and a member of the Politburo.
The number of hotels in Cambodia reached 480 as of 2013, up 1 percent year on year, with that of guesthouses up 3 percent to 1,330, the Ministry of Tourism said in a report on Saturday.
A coach plunged off a bridge in Lom Sak district of north Thailand's Phetchabun province, leaving at least 31 people dead and four others injured, local media reported on Friday.
At least seven people were killed and 15 others injured in separate fog-related accidents in Pakistan's eastern Punjab province on Monday morning, local Urdu TV channel Geo reported.
Security forces captured a Taliban commander in Taliban former stronghold the southern Kandahar province on Sunday, a statement of National Directorate for Security (NDS), or the country's national spy agency, said.
A Taliban key commander was killed in an airstrike in western Afghanistan's Nimroz province, sources said Sunday.
Iran hanged 16 prisoners, who it called "terrorist elements", on Saturday to revenge an earlier bloody border attack in which 17 people were killed.
A truck collided with five other vehicles in South Africa on Thursday night, killing at least 24 people and injuring about 80 others, local media reported.
Forty-five Taliban rebels surrendered in Afghanistan, sources said Sunday.
The death toll in the collision of a passenger ferry and a cargo vessel in central Philippine province of Cebu jumped to 52 while 68 people remained missing, the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) said Monday.
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