Aleppo /AFP Syrian government forces clashed with rebels on the outskirts of eastern Aleppo city on Sunday, a monitor said, after residents received messages from the army giving opposition fighters 24 hours to leave. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based monitor, and an AFP correspondent in rebel-held east Aleppo reported clashes in the Karam Al-Turab neighbourhood and ...

  Yangon / AFP Hundreds of buildings in Rohingya villages in western Myanmar have been torched, according to new satellite images released on Sunday as fresh fighting flared in the strife-torn region. Northern Rakhine, which is home to the Muslim Rohingya minority and borders Bangladesh, has been under military lockdown ever since surprise raids on border posts left nine police dead ...

  Kathmandu / AFP Police arrested 223 members of a Maoist splinter group across Nepal on Sunday for vandalising vehicles and forcing shops to close while trying to enforce a nationwide strike. The protesters from the Communist Party of Nepal had called on factories, schools and public transport to shut down across the Himalayan nation as they pressured the government to ...