Widespread floods have killed more than 800 people and displaced over a million in India, Nepal and Bangladesh, with aid workers warning of severe food shortages and water-borne diseases as rains continue to lash the affected areas.

Presdident Donald Trump will lay out his plans for military operations in Afghanistan and South Asia in an address to troops and the American public Monday night. The address will take place at 9 p.m. Eastern Monday from Fort Meyer Army base in Arlington, Virginia, according...

Islamic State has gained a substantial foothold in Pakistan as many splintered outfits, youths believing in the ideology of Jihad have integrated into the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria known as Walayat-e-Khurasan (ISIS-K) for South Asia. In April 2017, a female Islamic State recruit named Noreen Laghari was arrested following a law enforcement agency's raid in Lahore, shortly before she planned to blow herself up in a Christian church. The 19-year-old medical student at the Liaquat University of Medical and Health Sciences in the...

August 21, 2017 10:31 AM
WASHINGTON (BLOOMBERG) - US President Donald Trump will make a prime-time speech about Afghanistan and South Asia on Monday (Tuesday, Aug 22 in Singapore) as he looks to get his presidency back on track following the departure of chief strategist Stephen Bannon and a week of tumult over his response to white-nationalist violence.

President Trump will unveil his highly anticipated strategy for Afghanistan and South Asia during a prime-time address Monday night, an address that will cap months of intense debate between the president's inner circle and the country's top national security leaders on the way forward in the war-torn region.
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The president will address the nation Monday night about U.S. strategy in Afghanistan and South Asia

White House announces that President Donald Trump would address the nation's troops and the American people Monday night to update the path forward in Afghanistan and South Asia

NEW DELHI: Nearly 600 people have died and millions have been affected by monsoon floods in South Asia, officials said on Saturday, as relief and rescue operations continued. The latest floods and landslides in the subcontinent began in the second week of August, as the annual monsoon strengthened its grip over the northern and eastern parts of the region. Indian authorities sought military help in two districts of Uttar Pradesh state after fresh heavy rains left hundreds of villages marooned....

President Donald Trump is "studying and considering his options" for a new approach to Afghanistan and the broader South Asia region, the White House said after the president huddled with his top national security aides at Camp David.