A $280 million American military project to bring electricity to Kandahar is falling apart before it ends.
A military spokesman blamed a “technical” problem, but Pakistan’s Taliban also claimed responsibility.
In just one of several emergency tent colonies, 600 earthquake survivors are camping in a field in Kathmandu.
U.S. Ambassador Richard Verma said he worries about “potentially chilling effects” on civil society.
The men were among 49 defendants swiftly brought to trial amid a public clamoring for justice.
Kim Jong Un’s decision not to visit Moscow this week underscores the flimsiness of new ties.
Delegates at an informal meeting in Qatar agreed that the militant group should open a political office there.
The purported leader of al-Qaeda in South Asia claimed responsibility for the hacking attack in a video.
Bucolic but poor Nuwakot was devastated April 25, but aid is arriving and villagers are starting to rebuild.
Pakistanis have started looking closer to home for the causes of, and answers to, their country’s woes.
The quake not only destroyed homes and businesses, it damaged the city’s religious and royal heritage.
The martial arts-trained devotees in the 26-year-old cloister are a rarity in a male-dominated religious culture.
The secretary of state said the U.S. would send advisers to help Sri Lanka make democratic reforms.
Last week’s elections may have been the nation’s final peaceful vote amid rising fears of coming ethnic strife.
Most of the squad’s members are firefighters with years of experience in such places as Haiti and Turkey.
