Rights activists have found torture devices and other evidence of abuse in government prisons in the first Syrian city to fall to the rebels, Human Rights Watch said in a report on Friday.

There will be no separate samadhis (memorial) for VVIPs in Delhi as the government on Thursday decided to have a common complex for memorials of departed national leaders like Presidents, Vice Presidents and Prime Ministers.

Gunmen opened fire on NATO supply trucks passing through northwest Pakistan near the Afghan border, killing two drivers, local officials said.

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrived on Saturday in Istanbul for talks on the conflict in Syria with Turkish leaders after Washington slapped fresh sanctions on Bashar al-Assad's regime and its allies.

Suspected Hizbul militant Liyaqat Shah, arrested by the Delhi Police for allegedly conspiring to carry out terror attacks in the national capital, was on Friday granted bail by a special NIA court.

BSF on Tuesday foiled an intrusion bid along the Indo-Pak border in Samba district of Jammu and Kashmir.

After their troops remained in ‘face-to-face’ situation for nearly three weeks, India and China have agreed to restore status quo along Line of Actual Control (LAC) in Western Sector as it existed prior to April 15, when Chinese intruded into Indian territory there.

Iranian police have denied killing a group of Afghans trying to cross the border illegally into the Islamic republic, local media reported on Monday.

Israeli Premier Benjamin Netanyahu is "fully determined" to try to halt sales by Russia of advanced missiles to Syria when he visits Moscow for talks with President Vladimir Putin, a minister said on Sunday.

China has conducted live fire drills along its borders with North Korea, marking the first military activity in the area since Pyongyang stepped up threats to attack South Korea and the US.