Branded as Asia's most heavily-armed drug dealers, the China-backed ethnic Wa rebels have emerged as key players in Myanmar's peace process, a development seen as strengthening Beijing's influence over its violence-wracked neighbor, reports AFP.When Myanmar's new civilian leader Aung…

At least 15 Afghan soldiers were killed when Taliban fighters attacked their army base in the southern province of Kandahar, the defence ministry said Friday, in the second such assault on Western-backed forces this week, reports AFP.The attack in Shah Wali Kot district late Thursday came just three…

A Tunisian court held its first public hearing Friday in the trial of 26 people in connection with a 2015 jihadist beach massacre that killed dozens of foreign tourists, reports AFP. A student armed with a Kalashnikov assault rifle and grenades went on a rampage in the Port el-Kantaoui resort near Sousse…

UK foreign policy would change under a Labour government to one that "reduces rather than increases the threat" to the country, Jeremy Corbyn has said, reports BBC. He said "many experts" had linked UK involvement in wars abroad to terrorism at home, as election campaigning resumed…

A US-led coalition air strike on the eastern Syrian town of Mayadeen early Friday killed at least 80 relatives of Islamic State group fighters, a monitoring group told AFP. "The toll includes 33 children. They were families seeking refuge in the town's municipal building," said Rami Abdel…

Nepal said Friday that a South African who tried to climb Mount Everest without a permit can go home without paying a $22,000 fine, but banned him from mountaineering there for 10 years, reports AFP. Ryan Sean Davy, 43, was found hiding in a cave near Everest base camp nearly two weeks ago after being…