Taipei: The Taiwan government has planned to spend an additional US$8.69 billion on defense over the next five years, an attempt made to resist "severe threat" from China. "The Chinese communists have continued to invest heavily in national defense budgets, its military

Kabul [Afghanistan]: The West, in particular the US, had deluded itself into believing that the Taliban would honour all the pledges made and assurances given by them. They promised to have an inclusive government and not to allow Afghan soil to be used for attacks against any other

Wikipedia has suffered an "infiltration" that sought to advance the aims of China, the US non-profit organisation that owns the volunteer-edited encyclopaedia has said. The Wikimedia Foundation told BBC News the infiltration had threatened the "very foundations of

The Taliban have excluded girls from Afghan secondary schools, with only boys and male teachers allowed back into classrooms. Schoolgirls told the BBC they were devastated not to be returning. "Everything looks very dark," one said. Taliban officials who seized power last

After the Taliban takeover the experts are worried about children as Afghanistan has become very dangerous place for children says the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict, Virginia Gamba. Innocent children are unfortunately the ones to bear

Taipei [Taiwan]: Ten Chinese warplanes entered Taiwan’s air defence identification zone (ADIZ) on Monday, the 17th day of such intrusions in March alone. Air defence identification zones are early warning systems that help countries detect incursions into their airspace. Any

Dushanbe [Tajikistan]: The SCO member states on Friday strongly condemned terrorism in all its forms and reaffirmed the need to step up joint efforts to prevent terrorism and its financing. SCO member states adopted Dushanbe Declaration following the 21st Summit in Tajikistan.

The US has admitted that a drone strike in Kabul days before its military pullout killed 10 innocent people. A US Central Command investigation found that an aid worker and nine members of his family, including seven children, died in the 29 August strike. The youngest child,

Srinagar/IBNS: Jammu and Kashmir Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha Wednesday launched 'Mission One Gram Panchayat-One DIGI-Pay Sakhi' at Jammu & Kashmir Entrepreneurship Development Institute, Pampore. Initially, the DIGI-Pay facility will be provided in 2,000 remote villages

Islamabad [Pakistan], September 15 (ANI): The Taliban takeover of Afghanistan will have many far-reaching effects on its neighbouring countries, especially Pakistan.   Former Interior Minister of Pakistan Rehman Malik on Wednesday expressed that after the takeover of Afghanistan by

Kabul: After the Taliban's messy takeover of Afghanistan last month, the real estate prices and house rent has fallen drastically in Kabul, Tolo News reported citing real estate dealers as saying. According to dealers, property sales have sharply fallen and rent prices have fallen

Among global leaders, US President Joe Biden, US Vice President Kamala Harris, Chinese President Xi Jinping, Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi, Israel’s Naftali Bennett, Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi were also listed among the 100 most influential people this year. Prime

Kabul: The Taliban has brought back the 'Ministry of Propagation of Virtue and Prevention of Vice' in Afghanistan, which was abolished during the US-led military occupation in the country. Its return sent a collective shudder through many Afghans, who remembered it for its

The Czech Republic on Sunday said that the country would not recognise the Taliban "under any circumstances".   However, the country's Foreign Minister Jakub Kulhanek added that it will still be necessary to maintain some contacts with the outfit, which last month

A major row broke out between leaders of the Taliban just days after they set up a new government in Afghanistan, senior Taliban officials told the BBC. Supporters of two rival factions reportedly brawled at the presidential palace in the capital Kabul. The argument appeared to

North and South Korea have tested ballistic missiles hours apart from each other, highlighting an arms race on the peninsula as nuclear talks with the North remain stalled. The North fired two ballistic missiles across its east coast, its first test with such missiles in six months and

North Korea has fired two ballistic missiles off its east coast, South Korea's military has confirmed. Japan also reported an object was fired, and that it may have been a ballistic missile. Japan's Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga has called the launch "outrageous"

Women rights in Afghanistan have evolved throughout history even though Afghanistan’s 1964 Constitution granted equality to Afghan women, yet these rights were smashed away by temporary rulers especially the Taliban’s during the Afghan Civil war. Under the Taliban regime women

BEIJING, Sept. 10 -- China is strongly dissatisfied with and firmly opposed to the remarks by an official of the Australian Department of Defense publicly hyping up "China threat theory" and making groundless accusations toward China, which is extremely dangerous and

On 15 August 2021, Arg, the Presidential Palace of Kabul, was captured by the Taliban, a fundamentalist militant force. It was a depiction of the grim reality that the Taliban were in complete control and there was a new regime prepared to rule Afghanistan, albeit not what was desired by