KOCHI: When news broke on December 8 on the sudden collapse of Syria’s Bashar al-Assad regime, even veteran West Asian watchers were aghast. For, Assad’s abdica ...

Putin apologises over Azerbaijan Airlines plane crash – but does not admit fault - Azerbaijan says the plane had multiple ...

Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky claimed earlier this week that 3,000 North Korean troops had been killed and wounded in the fighting in Kursk. It marked the first estimate by Ukraine of North ...