Chinese authorities now face new challenges in countering terrorism as terrorist attacks have crossed the Xinjiang border years after 2009, when the worst riots in decades broke out in the region.
Egypt's new Prime Minister Ibrahim Mahlab urged on Sunday the Egyptian people to stop strikes and protests in order for the production process to continue in a country hit by a three year turmoil.
President Xi Jinping will head the central Internet security and informatization leading group, according to a statement released after the first meeting of the group on Thursday.
Hundreds of people protested Monday near Turkey's southern border against escalated tension resulted from clashes between the army and militants at a security post construction site, local media reported.
Several people were injured Thursday evening in clashes between soccer fans of Egypt's Ahly club and police forces at a Cairo stadium, where Ahly beat Tunisia's Sfaxien 3-2 and won the African Super Cup.
The UN Security Council on Wednesday condemned the deadly terrorist attacks in the Lebanese capital Beirut earlier in the day, calling the bombings "heinous acts."
Egypt's bus explosion on Sunday in the governorate of South Sinai, which killed three tourists from the Republic of Korea as well as the Egyptian driver, is likely to harm the country's already-suffering tourism.
U.S. federal government has issued a warning to U.S. and some foreign airlines that fly to Russia for the Olympic Games about "toothpaste bomb" threats, multiple U.S. media reported on Wednesday.
Afghanistan's third presidential election campaign since the collapse of Taliban regime in late 2001 formally kicked off in the conflict-plagued country on Sunday amid tight security as the militant group vowed to disrupt the polling process.
The security system in the 2014 Winter Olympics host city of Sochi meets world standards, Russian Emergencies Minister Vladimir Puchkov said Monday.
A group of masked gunmen forced a train to stop north of the Egyptian capital of Cairo but ran away before carrying out any attack upon the arrival of security forces, official news agency MENA reported.
Cambodian security forces fired smoke bombs to disperse protesters in the capital Monday morning, national military police spokesman Kheng Tito said.
Threats sent to a number of national Olympic Committees should not be taken too seriously, head of the Russian Olympic Committee Alexander Zhukov said Thursday.
At least 28 people were killed and 45 others injured when a suicide bomber hit a bus carrying Shiite muslim pilgrims in Pakistan's southwest province of Balochistan
At least 10 people including six security personnel were killed and 17 others injured in a suicide attack at security forces in Pakistan's garrison city of Rawalpindi
Heavy casualties were feared Tuesday afternoon when improvised explosive devices were suspected to have been detonated by a suicide bomber at a commercial area in Maiduguri, capital of northeast Nigeria's Borno State, sources told Xinhua.
U.S. President Barack Obama defended his Afghanistan policy on Monday, saying he continues to have "faith" in the U.S. mission in the country.
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