Baghdad: Iraq has announced the discovery of an ancient city dating back to the Abbasid era in Basra Governorate, southern Iraq, estimated to be more than 1,200 years old. Director of the Basra ...

The EU is increasing its focus on Central Asia for natural resources due to the war in Ukraine and strained US relations. Logistical challenges, particularly transportation routes bypassing Russia ...

The Kashmir conflict has been running for nearly eight decades, and the contested region is one of the most heavily fortified ...

Join us for the North American premiere of Chinese contemporary artist Yang Fudong’s latest film, ‘Sparrow on the Sea,’ followed by a conversation with the artist and Asia Society Curator of Learning ...

It's a noticeable shift from previous years, when the two parties consistently dominated the local electoral map, together taking the majority of the vote share. This fragmentation of voting ...

Rivian Automotive quietly built a reserve of electric-vehicle batteries from Asia ahead of President Donald Trump’s tariffs, giving the company a measure of insurance against the upheaval in ...

Join the Zurich Centre for Creative Economies and Asia Society Switzerland for an event with artist and cartoonist Justin Wong. An evening of screenings of selected episodes from the latest season of ...

(Kyodo) -- Services were temporarily disrupted Wednesday on the Tokaido Shinkansen bullet train line connecting Tokyo and Osaka after a snake tangled in overhead wires and caused a power outage ...

TOKYO -- Japan's five biggest trading houses anticipate significant hits to their earnings this fiscal year, as the key holdings of Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway try to deal with the global ...