Asia-Pacific

North Korea launched multiple ballistic missiles toward the sea off its east coast on Monday morning, South Korea's military said — its fourth launch in a month, days after South Korea test-fired a hypersonic missile. One type flew more than 900 km, and Seoul convened an emergency security meeting and condemned the launches as violations of UN Security Council resolutions.

Airstrikes on camps for internally displaced people in Rakhine State's Ponnagyun township killed eight people and injured 13 over Sunday and Monday, the Arakan Army and the Ponnagyun Youth Association said on October 5, 2026. The figures have not been independently verified; Myanmar's government did not comment.

Pakistani aircraft struck two locations in Afghanistan's Kunar and Helmand provinces overnight, killing at least 10 civilians, most of them children, UNAMA confirmed. Islamabad says 22 militants were killed; the Taliban government condemned the strikes as 'an act of aggression.'

Pakistan's military said this weekend it killed more than 71 militants in operations across Balochistan — the latest chapter in a 20-year separatist insurgency that escalated sharply this year. Here is who is fighting, what they want, and why it is getting worse.

The Kashmir flashpoint put two nuclear-armed rivals through four days of missile, drone and fighter-jet combat in May 2025 — the worst fighting since 1999. Here is why Kashmir keeps pulling India and Pakistan back to the brink.

The Korean War (1950–1953) killed millions, ended in an armistice rather than a peace treaty, and left the peninsula divided to this day. Here is why it started, what it cost, and why it still matters.

Myanmar's civil war has killed more than 100,000 people since the 2021 coup — and a September 2026 airstrike on a Rakhine market that killed at least 33 shows how the junta's air campaign now punishes civilians far from any front line. Here is who is fighting, and why.

The death toll from a Myanmar military airstrike on the town of Kyauktaw in Rakhine State rose to 50 on Tuesday, per the Arakan Army and a local aid worker — the deadliest such attack in the state since December. Here is what is known, and the wider war it belongs to.

The nine-dash line is the U-shaped mark on Chinese maps claiming most of the South China Sea — a claim an international tribunal ruled has no legal basis in 2016. Here is where the line came from, what the law says, and why the dispute keeps escalating.

North Korea's missile program has moved from pariah-state posturing to a live combat laboratory: Pyongyang is testing AI-guided missiles at home while supplying Russia with ballistic missiles for Ukraine. Here is how the arsenal works — and what Moscow gets in return.

In 1904–05, Japan — barely a generation removed from feudal rule — fought Russia to a standstill and won. It was the first modern victory of an Asian state over a European great power, and its shockwaves ran from Tokyo's bond markets to the streets of St. Petersburg.

China's gray-zone pressure on Taiwan mixes live-fire drills, daily military incursions, cyberattacks and even sand dredgers to exhaust the island without starting a war. Here is how the coercion campaign works — and what it is meant to achieve.

The Vietnam War killed millions and reshaped American institutions, Southeast Asia's borders, and Cold War politics — this explainer covers the causes, the casualty ranges, the economic costs, and the global consequences.

Within 48 hours, the Philippines accused China of obstructing a resupply mission to Second Thomas Shoal — and China's military announced a naval and air exercise around Scarborough Shoal.

A 130-kilometre-wide waterway, the world's most important chip factories, an informal median line that no longer holds, and a US policy of deliberate ambiguity — the Strait is where geography, economics, and great-power politics collide.