#escalation

The Indonesian government has welcomed steps taken by the governments of China and the Philippines to reduce tensions ...

Seventeen suspected Al-Qaeda militants were killed in an air raid that struck one of their hideouts in the southern ...

Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi accused Eritrea on Tuesday of abducting dozens of Ethiopian miners from the ...

Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki is monopolising power and preparing the ground for a return to dictatorship, ...

Nobel Prize-winning German writer Guenter Grass has attacked Israel as a threat to world peace and said it must not be ...

Syria has agreed to "immediately" start pulling troops out of protest cities, UN-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan said ...

President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has asked all administration officials to remain calm, think clearly and rationally ...

Chile`s President Sebastian Pinera has accepted the resignation of Energy Minister Rodrigo Alvarez who stepped down ...

The United Nations on Tuesday increased its death toll estimate for the Syria unrest to more than 9,000. ...

The outbreak of poisonous rove beetles in East Java, which have infected around 560 people in 12 districts, has ...

The outbreak of rove beetle attacks in East Java has reached the Sleman district in Yogyakarta where two locals in the ...

The Middle East Quartet on Monday called upon the Israelis and Palestinians to end " provocative actions" and make ...

Syrian ambassador to Egypt Youssef el- Ahmed and his family left Cairo to Damascus on Thursday in response to Egypt`s ...

More than 37 Indonesians are being evacuated from Syria following worsening of political crisis in the country, the ...

Indonesia has been urged to evacuate immediately around 12,500 nationals from Syria following the escalation in ...