Ice losses indicate ‘devastating’ future for region and 1 billion people who depend on it for water   The melting of Himalayan glaciers has doubled since the turn of the century, with more than a quarter of all ice lost over the last four decades, scientists have revealed. The accelerating ...

American central military command claims there were ‘no US aircraft’ over Iran at the time   Iran’s Revolutionary Guard says it has shot down a US drone flying over the country’s territory close to the Strait of Hormuz, amid a growing row between Washington and Tehran over reported attacks on oil ...

Developing countries, not rich Western nations, are bearing the brunt of the world’s refugee crisis and are hosting most of the record 70.8 million displaced people who have fled war and persecution, the United Nations said on Wednesday. Half of the world’s forcibly displaced are children and the 2018 total ...

Acting U.S. Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan announced on Monday the deployment of about 1,000 more troops to the Middle East for what he said were defensive purposes, citing concerns about a threat from Iran. Fears of a confrontation between Iran and the United States have mounted since last Thursday when ...

Egypt’s former president, Mohammed Morsi, the Muslim Brotherhood leader who rose to office in the country’s first free elections in 2012 and was ousted a year later by the military, collapsed in court during a trial and died, state TV and his family said. State TV, citing a medical source, ...

Aggressive strategy leaves US better poised to attack in case of major conflict but carries significant risk of escalating digital Cold War and cementing power grids as legitimate targets   The United States is stepping up digital incursions into Russia’s electric power grid in a warning to President Vladimir Putin and ...

Norwegian and Japanese oil tankers were targeted by an unprovoked attack on Thursday, in the Gulf of Oman, a key waterway used to transport energy supplies from the Middle East. No one has claimed responsibility or clarified how the tankers were attacked. “U.S. Naval Forces in the region received two ...

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe warned of unintended clashes in the crisis-hit Middle East after meeting the Iranian president in Tehran on Wednesday, amid a brewing confrontation between Iran and the United States. As a U.S. ally that also has good diplomatic relations with Iran, Japan could be in a ...

Refugee agency says risk of people dying attempting crossing is at its highest   The risk of migrants and refugees becoming shipwrecked in the Mediterranean and dying at sea is the highest it has ever been due to a lack of NGO rescue ships and the conflict in Libya hastening ...

China and the United States clashed again this weekend on trade and security, accusing each other of destabilizing the region and potentially the world. Speaking on Sunday at the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore, Asia’s premier defense summit, China’s Defence Minister Wei Fenghe warned the United States not to meddle in ...