Two Red Cross workers were freed in Afghanistan Tuesday, seven months after they were abducted during an attack on their convoy that killed six colleagues, the international charity said, reports AFP from Kabul. The Afghan aid workers came under fire in the northern province of Jowzjan on February 8…

The US has accused North Korea of “begging for war” and pushed for the “strongest possible measures” on Pyongyang following its sixth and most powerful nuclear test, reports AFP. As world powers scramble to react to the latest grave step in the North’s rogue weapons programme,…

Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen named a staunchly pro-independence city mayor as her new premier yesterday in a move which some analysts said would rile China, reports AFP from Taipei. China still sees self-ruled Taiwan as part of its territory, even though they split almost 70 years ago, and…

The Islamic State group seized swathes of Iraq and Syria in 2014 as it sought to establish its self-declared “caliphate”, but has faced a…