AFP, BEIRUT: Air strikes have killed several Al-Qaeda-linked Al-Nusra Front members including its spokesman and regime forces have retaken a strategic town from the Islamic State group in the latest setbacks for jihadists in Syria. Abu Firas al-Suri, whose real name was Radwan Nammous, fought against…

AFP, SEOUL: South Korea conducted a large-scale live fire exercise Monday on the East Sea, where North Korea has been upping tensions with a series of missile and rocket launches supervised by leader Kim Jong-Un. The drill involving K-9 self-propelled artillery units and 130mm multiple rocket launchers…

AFP, WASHINGTON: Joe Medicine Crow, the last surviving Plains Indian war chief—a title obtained for his World War II feats—died on Sunday, Montana state Governor Steve Bullock said. He was 102. President Barack Obama had honoured Medicine Crow with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the…

AFP, ATLANTIC CITY, United States: Con Kimura got the best Christmas bonus of his life working for Donald Trump in Atlantic City in 1984. But he still won’t vote for him as president. “Never in a million years,” the emphatic 64-year-old retiree told AFP, standing outside the shuttered…

AFP, BRAZZAVILLE: Fighting erupted in the southern part of Congo’s capital Brazzaville on Monday, with heavy fire in opposition bastions between troops and unidentified assailants sending thousands of residents fleeing. By late morning, AFP reporters saw streams of people panicked by the gunfire…

AFP, JAMMU: Mehbooba Mufti was sworn in on Monday as Indian-administered Kashmir’s first woman leader, taking over from her father nearly three…

AFP, YANGON: Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi has dropped plans to run two major ministries but will act as spokeswoman for the country’s new president, a ruling party official said Monday. Banned from becoming president by a junta-era constitution, Suu Kyi has cemented control over the country’s…