Myanmar President U Thein Sein on Wednesday pledged to work for a free and fair general election, and maintain political stability during the transition from the pre-election period to the post-election period.
At least 70 rebels were killed and 40 others wounded by Syrian airstrikes in Latakia Wednesday, amid ongoing military showdown near the area of Ghab Plains, the state-run SANA news agency and a monitor group reported.
4 ethnic armed groups in Myanmar willing to sign cease-fire accord with gov't
Chinese Vice Premier Liu Yandong declared Sunday the opening of the 10th Chinese Ethnic Games, which draws 6,240 athletes from all 56 ethnic groups of China competing or performing in nearly 200 Chinese traditional sport events in the coming eight days.
At least 300 improvised rockets and mortar shells slammed into predominantly-Shiite towns in northwestern Syria, killing seven civilians, a monitor group reported Tuesday.
A growing tension between Islamic Hamas movement and Salafist groups overshadows the situation in the Gaza Strip, but analysts ruled out a comprehensive collision between the two sides.
Myanmar ethnic armed group leaders Wednesday called for settlement of domestic conflict through political means, saying that the six-decade-old domestic conflict was rooted from political issues based on ethnic affairs.
The extremist militant groups committed a massacre in a town they captured in northwestern Syria, killing over 30 civilians, mostly women and children, the state news agency SANA reported Sunday.
Peace negotiators of the Myanmar government and ethnic armed groups successfully concluded negotiation of a draft nationwide cease-fire agreement (NCA) on Monday and the draft accord was preliminarily signed here Tuesday.
Peace negotiators of the Myanmar government and ethnic armed groups preliminarily signed a seven- chapter draft nationwide ceasefire agreement (NCA) here Tuesday as a follow-up of finalization of negotiation on Monday.
Peace negotiators of the Myanmar government and ethnic armed groups, in their first day of resumed peace talks in Yangon Tuesday, agreed to seek political ways for reducing conflict referring to the current fighting in Kokang region and Kachin state.
At least 25 Syrian soldiers were killed and dozens of others wounded Wednesday in clashes with extremist groups in the east suburb of the capital Damascus, a monitoring group reported Thursday.
In a document released on Monday, the central government promised to cultivate and appoint more officials from minority groups and ensure they are given "full trust".
In 2014, one of the major challenges Algeria has to cope with is security concerns, especially when terrorism is ravaging the region.
Ethnic artists from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) will join together to perform at the Chaktomuk Theater here on Friday evening, a Cambodian official said Monday.
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has termed the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist group, a decision seen by observers as a "serious attempt" to back Egypt in combating terrorism.
A spate of recent terror attacks in the United States and Canada underscore the danger of so-called "lone wolf" terror attack
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