Inaction is not an option for the United States in Syria after a horrendous chemical attack, President Barack Obama said Saturday as he urged holdout lawmakers to back a military strike.

Pakistan intelligence officials say a pair of missiles launched by a U.S. Drone hit a militant hideout near the Afghan border and killed six suspected militants.

The G20 summit has failed to heal the rift over US plans for military action against the embattled Syrian regime, as world leaders today could not reach a consensus on the deeply divisive issue.

The Taliban today denied shooting dead Indian writer Sushmita Banerjee, whose murder Afghan officials blamed on the insurgent militia fighting against the government for 12 years.

A Russian warship carrying "special cargo" will be dispatched toward Syria, a navy source said today, as the
Kremlin beefs up its presence in the region ahead of possible US strikes against the Damascus regime.

Indian national Sushmita Banerjee, whose memoir about her dramatic escape from the Taliban was turned into a Bollywood film, was shot dead in Afghanistan by militants, police said Thursday.

A Chinese provincial official whose grinning at the scene of a deadly bus crash sparked an outcry and, eventually, led to corruption charges was sentenced Thursday to 14 years in prison.

Washington: Observing that anybody can sue anybody for anything in the US if they pay the filing fee of the court, an eminent Indian-American attorney has said that it is for the court to decide if t

US officials say President Barack Obama’s top national security aides have recommended that the US suspend hundreds of millions of dollars in military and economic assistance to Egypt in response to the Egyptian military’s ouster of the country’s first democratically elected leader.

Washington: The US President Barack Obama's plan to launch military strikes on Syria has cleared the first hurdle with a key Senate committee voting to authorise him to take action against the Assad