Zagreb / AFP A former Serb paramilitary commander, extradited from Australia last year, will go on trial in Croatia on Tuesday charged with the torture and murder of civilians and prisoners of war in the 1990s. Dragan Vasiljkovic — or ‘Captain Dragan’ — was handed over by Canberra after almost a decade-long legal battle, becoming the first suspected war criminal …

  Yangon / AFP At least eight people have been killed and thousands displaced by clashes in southeast Myanmar, rebels and border forces said on Monday, violence that threatens to undercut the new government’s push for peace. Fighting broke out this month between government troops and an ethnic rebel splinter group known as the DKBA in Karen state, near the border …

  AFP India’s prime minister, Narendra Modi on Monday summoned top security advisers to thrash out a response to a deadly raid on a Kashmir army base blamed on militants from Pakistan, amid calls for tough action against the nuclear-armed nation. Modi has vowed to punish those behind the attack in which gunmen hurling grenades stormed a base, killing 17 …