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Nearly 200 Southeast Asians, including 2 Singaporeans, served in Israeli military: IDF data

Nearly 200 Southeast Asians were among more than 50,000 service members in the Israeli military.......

Afghanistan's Taliban rulers said they are preparing "an appropriate and calculated response" to Pakistani air.......

For its $15 billion Port City Colombo project, Sri Lanka has launched a new campaign.......

The conventional account of why Timor-Leste’s membership of ASEAN is good for regional security goes.......

US-led military operations against Iran – which began with a decapitation strike that killed the.......

Heavy clashes have intensified around Sittwe as the Arakan Army (AA) advances to within 2.......

The Trump administration has unilaterally—without any Congressional debate or vote, of course—forced Americans into yet.......

Nepal has seen this before. During the “Gen Z” uprising of September 2025, fake news.......

This has not been subtle. Across multiple decades, Israel, and Benjamin Netanyahu in particular (he.......

Mehdi Hasan

BEFORE MIDDAY on 6 March, the first winner in Nepal’s general election the previous day.......

The Pakistan–Afghanistan border is once again aflame. What began as sporadic skirmishes after the Taliban’s.......

Salman Rafi Sheikh

The “Hormuz Risk” is no longer an abstract exercise for Riyadh. A prolonged disruption in.......

Tim Daiss

While the world’s attention is rightly focused on the war in Iran, another conflict is.......

On February 12, 2026, Bangladesh held its first election after the fall of Sheikh Hasina.......

Wahiduzzaman Noor

More than half a century after the birth of Bangladesh, the question of Bengali identity.......

Reports last week that US President Donald Trump is considering asking Congress for a waiver.......

Asia Sentinel

At first glance, India’s Maritime Doctrine 2025 appears to be a routine update to earlier editions. Read closely,.......

U.S. Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi’s bid to become the first Indian American senator in Illinois and.......

In March 2001, after the Taliban dynamited the Buddhas of Bamiyan — two towering sixth-century.......

For the first two weeks of Ramadan, Mahmoud, who works in a bakery across the.......