Kabul’s military training academy is churning out classes of enthusiastic women to serve in Afghanistan’s army, but the realities of rising violence and a conservative society make the future for the young recruits far from certain.

An Afghan woman immortalised on a National Geographic cover will be sent back to the war-torn homeland she first fled decades ago, after a Pakistani court ordered yesterday that she be deported.

Kanu Ramdas Gandhi, whose picture holding his grandfather Mahatma Gandhi’s stick on the beaches of Gujarat’s Dandi village during the historic Salt Satyagraha of March-April 1930, ...

Thailand’s junta chief has pleaded for trust in his rice policy, as a price slump deepens anguish among poor farmers fiercely loyal to the government he toppled.

Indonesian police quelled a mass protest by tens of thousands of hardline Muslims yesterday, firing tear gas and water cannon into crowds demanding the resignation of the Christian governor of Jakarta, who they said had insulted the Qur’an.

Sri Lanka has declared a week of mourning from for the nation to pay respect to the late W D Amaradeva.

President Pranab Mukherjee yesterday said that India values its partnership with Nepal, and stressed on the development of border infrastructure.

A handwritten copy of J K Rowling’s story collection The Tales of Beedle the Bard, which she made for the publisher who first accepted Harry Potter for publication, is set to fetch up to £500,000 when it is auctioned next month.

A cyclonic storm is forecast to hit Bangladesh and is likely to cause “heavy to heavy rainfall” in India’s northeastern and coastal eastern states, in next two-three days.

Fire-fighters battle flames inside an auditorium of a girls’ school, Museaus College, as it marked its 125th anniversary in Colombo yesterday.

Prime Minister Theresa May told European Union leaders yesterday she is confident a court ruling that could delay Britain’s departure from the bloc will be overturned, and that she can stick to her Brexit timetable.

Scotland Yard is recruiting an extra 120 armed officers to protect the royal family, government ministers and high-profile figures, it has emerged.