A convicted firebrand cleric who inspired the Bali bombers and other violent extremists has walked free from an Indonesian prison after completing his sentence for funding the training of Islamic mili...

Jailed Hong Kong pro-democracy activist Joshua Wong has been arrested on a new charge under the national security law while an American rights lawyer who was detained in a sweeping crackdown was grant...

Members of Indonesia’s anti-terrorism police squad have shot and killed two suspected militants who they believe were connected to a deadly suicide attack at a Roman Catholic cathedral in the southern...

An opposition party and local media say about 50 Hong Kong pro-democracy figures have been arrested by police under the new national security law...

The owners of a vessel seized by Iran say that armed Iranian Revolutionary Guard troops stormed a South Korean tanker the day before and forced the ship to travel to Iran...

The former head of a Chinese state-owned asset management company has been sentenced to death for bribe taking in one of the harshest punishments for economic crimes in recent years...

Hong Kong police have arrested seven people over scuffles that broke out in the city's legislature earlier this year during a faceoff between pro-democracy and pro-Beijing lawmakers...

About a dozen people have protested outside Mitsubishi Heavy Industries headquarters in Tokyo, demanding Japanese companies pay compensation for their wartime abuse of Korean laborers...

China is accusing the U.S. of seeking to smear its efforts to pursue overseas fugitives...

South Korea’s top court has upheld a 17-year prison sentence on former President Lee Myung-bak for a range of corruption crimes in a final ruling that will send him back to prison soon...