Asia

The 2022 Winter Olympics have kicked off in China with almost 3,000 athletes from 91 nations taking part, competing to get their hands on one of 109 gold medals on offer. “The world is turning its eyes to China and China is ready. We will do our best to deliver to the world a streamlined, safe and splendid Games,” Chinese President Xi

Escalating military tensions between China and Taiwan have dominated headlines in recent days and weeks. Over a four day period beginning last Friday, Taiwan reported close to 150 Chinese air force aircraft entered its air defence zone, a buffer outside the island’s airspace. Taiwan’s Defence Minister Chiu Kuo-cheng told the parliament the situation was “the most serious” in more than 40 years since he

North Korea fired a pair of ballistic missiles from its central inland area into the sea off its east coast on Wednesday (Sept. 15), South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said. Japan’s coast guard previously expressed on its belief Pyongyang fired two ballistic missiles into the East Sea, possibly towards the empire’s exclusive economic zone, while Japanese prime minister Yoshihide Suga

Former Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani, who escaped from the country in August as the Taliban took control of Kabul and has faced intense criticism for leaving the war-torn nation, apologized on Wednesday (Sept. 8) to the Afghan people that he “could not make it end differently.” Ghani said in a statement on Twitter that he left the capital at the advice of

As the Taliban has been celebrating the withdrawal of US-led NATO forces after 20 years of war, Afghans flee en mass their country. Remarkable footage shows thousands of people walking miles through the desert where the borders of Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iran all meet. “In the footage, with the human caravan stretching back as far as the eye can see, few words

A deadly terror attack near Kabul’s Hamid Karzai International Airport took the lives of at least 90 Afghans and 13 US soldiers. There are also more than 150 wounded from the blasts, an official with Afghanistan’s Ministry of Public Health told CNN Friday (Aug. 27). Two blasts and gunfire rocked the area outside the airport on Thursday (Aug. 26) evening, Reuters reported citing witnesses. The first targeted the

Afghan, American and German soldiers were involved in an exchange of fire early Monday  (Aug. 23) at Kabul Airport in Afghanistan. The gun-battle left one Afghan soldier dead and three more wounded, German military officials said, according to Reuters. The Afghan Civil Aviation Authority also announced on Monday  a suspension of all flights in the Kabul airport until further notice, urging citizens