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Ashish Kumar Sen

Ashish Kumar Sen

asen@washingtontimes.com

Ashish Kumar Sen is a reporter covering foreign policy and international developments for The Washington Times.
Prior to joining The Times, Mr. Sen worked for publications in Asia and the Middle East. His work has appeared in a number of publications and online news sites including the British Broadcasting Corp., Asia Times Online and Outlook magazine.

Articles by Ashish Kumar Sen

In this image from Egyptian state TV, President-elect Mohammed Morsi delivers a speech in Cairo on Sunday. President Obama called to congratulate him and underscored that the United States will continue to support Egypt's transition to democracy. (Associated Press)

Islamist’s win in Egypt leaves U.S. uncertain

Egyptians celebrated Sunday the election of their country's first freely elected president - Mohammed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood, who becomes the first Islamist head of state of the Arab world's most populous nation.

June 24, 2012
**FILE** Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan (left) shakes hands May 22, 2012, with Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani at his house in Islamabad, Pakistan. (Associated Press)

Pakistani court dismisses prime minister

Pakistan's Supreme Court dismissed the country's prime minister Tuesday, two months after it had convicted him of contempt for failing to reopen a corruption investigation against President Asif Ali Zardari.

June 19, 2012
** FILE ** President Obama meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the G-20 summit in Los Cabos, Mexico. (Associated Press)

Obama, Putin tiptoe on ‘Syrian affair’

In their first meeting following renewed tensions between the U.S. and Russia, President Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin called Monday for an end to the violence in Syria and said there's still time for diplomacy to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons.

June 18, 2012
Sen. John McCain, Arizona Republican (Associated Press)

McCain hits Russia’s support for Syria

Russia has dispatched two warships and a unit of marines to secure its naval base at the Syrian port of Tartus, and it is delivering anti-ship and anti-aircraft missiles to help Syrian President Bashar Assad defend his regime, Sen. John McCain said Monday.

June 18, 2012
An Egyptian boy peers through barbed wire Thursday during a protest in Cairo. Egypt's high court ruled that the nation's parliament must be dissolved. (Associate Press)

Mubarak cronies try to take back Egypt power

Egypt's top court plunged the country into turmoil Thursday when it ruled that the Islamist-dominated parliament must be dissolved and the last prime minister to serve under ousted President Hosni Mubarak can run as a candidate in this weekend's presidential runoff election.

June 14, 2012
A Syrian chants slogans during a protest against Syrian President Bashar Assad after prayers on the outskirts of Idlib, Syria, on Friday, June 8, 2012. (AP Photo)

Both sides deny there’s civil war in Syria

Syrian troops stormed a rebel-held area on the Mediterranean coast Wednesday, driving out opposition fighters and retaking the Haffa region as world leaders debated the mounting violence there and mulled how to quell it.

June 13, 2012

U.S. seeks to iron out issues with India

The U.S. wants India to end its dependence on Iranian oil and train Afghan security forces as it seeks to deepen its relationship with a nation it considers a linchpin of its new defense strategy in the Asia-Pacific region.

June 11, 2012
This citizen journalism image provided by Shaam News Network taken Saturday purports to show the bodies of a man and a girl on the hood of a United Nations observer vehicle following a Syrian government assault on Houla, Syria. The Syrian government denied Sunday its troops were behind the attack in which at least 108 people were killed. (Shaam News Networks via Associated Press)

Diplomats from Syria expelled by U.S., allies

International outrage over violence in Syria neared the boiling point Tuesday as the U.S. and other Western nations expelled Syrian diplomats for Friday's massacre of at least 108 people, mostly women and children, in a western village in the strife-racked country.

May 29, 2012
For Jakaya Kikwete, the president of Tanzania, money to advance Africa's agriculture is essential for his and many other African nations. "If we can succeed, we will lift millions and millions of people out of poverty very quickly," he says. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)

Tanzanian plows fertile ground in pitch for aid

Tanzania's president is waging a war on hunger — and while he's at it, he wants to modernize his East African nation's agricultural sector to lift millions of his countrymen out of poverty.

May 21, 2012
** FILE ** A Sri Lankan boy supporting President Mahinda Rajapaksha holds his poster as they rally around the parliament complex in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Wednesday, Sept. 8, 2010. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena)

Clinton urges Sri Lanka to prosecute war criminals

Sri Lankan Foreign Minister G.L. Peiris on Friday apprised Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton of the steps his government is taking to hold accountable those responsible for committing war crimes during a three decade-long war with Tamil rebels.

May 18, 2012