Prime Minister Narendra Modi will travel to Washington DC and New York in the last week of September, according to top Indian government sources quoted by The Indian Express

The Bangladesh Coast Guard has detained 13 Indian fishermen along with their trawler for alleged illegal intrusion into Bangladeshi waters, media reports said

At least 17 people were killed in celebratory gunfire in Kabul after Taliban sources said their fighters had seized control of Panjshir, the last province in Afghanistan that has built up strong resistance against the hardline Islamist group

Amidst curbs on mobile internet and restrictions on people’s movement in India’s Kashmir valley, Pakistan summoned the Indian charge d'affaires to the Foreign Office in Islamabad accusing New Delhi of what it called "shameless snatching" of Kashmiri separatist leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani's body from his family, a charge denied by Indian authorities

In a significant diplomatic engagement ahead of government formation in Afghanistan, a Taliban delegation on Friday met Pakistan’s ambassador to Qatar to discuss the current situation and bilateral relations based on “mutual interest and respect”, a Taliban spokesperson said on Twitter

After having called their neighboring nation a “second home”, the Taliban has heaped praise on Pakistan and reiterated that there would be no threat to that country from Afghanistan

The US has reaffirmed “the strength of the defence relationship between the United States and India,” the only designated US major defence partner, as India's Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla met several senior officials in Washington to discuss the situation in Afghanistan and the region in the wake of what is widely viewed as a disastrous pullout of US troops from the country

Sri Lanka has extended the ongoing lockdown nationwide till 13 September, Health Minister Keheliya Rambukwella said, as daily infections still remain too high to ease lockdown

Two weeks after taking over power, when Afghanistan has been without any government, the Taliban are likely to announce a new administration after  Friday afternoon prayers, with its top spiritual figure Haibatullah Akhundzada set to be named the country’s supreme authority, Taliban sources and media reports said

Tajikistan, Afghanistan’s northern neighbor, has awarded its third-highest civilian award, posthumously, to two former anti-Taliban Afghan political figures belonging to the Tajik ethnic group - late legendary Mujahideen commander Ahmad Shah Massoud and former Afghan president Burhanuddin Rabbani

Meeting under the shadow of Washington's retreat from Afghanistan, senior diplomats and defence officials of India and the US discussed the recent developments in the region and cooperation in counter-terrorism

Bangladesh has ramped up efforts to vaccinate teachers, support staff of schools and colleges, and their families as the country pushes to resume physical classes in educational institutions in the coming weeks

The Maldivian government has on Thursday signed a $40 million Line of Credit Agreement with India’s EXIM Bank for the development of sports infrastructure across the country

Sri Lanka has fully vaccinated over 8.5 million people--roughly 40 percent of its total eligible population--by Wednesday this week, and almost 4 million others received their first dose, the data released by the country’s health authority showed

After the last American soldier left Afghanistan on August 31 midnight, the terror outfit Al Qaeda released a statement in which it called for "global jihad" to "liberate" other Islamic lands and mentioned Kashmir