The United States announced Tuesday that it is lifting some of the sanctions on Myanmar to show support for the country's political reforms and economic growth and to facilitate trade between the two sides.
The retired junta general who steered Myanmar's last five years of reforms has temporarily become a monk, according to state media, days after he ceded power to a new government led by Aung San Suu Kyi's pro-democracy party.
Both houses of Myanmar's parliament have formed more committees respectively to carry out parliamentary undertakings, an official report said on Friday.
Four Syrian soldiers were killed on Sunday when U.S.-led coalition airplanes struck positions of government troops, pan-Arab al-Mayadeen TV reported on Monday.
U.S.-led coalition airplanes struck positions of the Syrian army in the country's eastern province on Sunday evening, local media reported.
Up to 18 civilians were killed and 47 others wounded when warplanes of the Saudi-led coalition forces mistakenly hit a populated neighborhood in Yemen' s southern port city of Aden on Monday, a government official told Xinhua.
Airstrikes have claimed the lives of 25 militants in eastern Afghanistan's Khost and Paktika provinces over the past two days, local media reported on Sunday.
At least one civilian was wounded after a bomb attack targeted a NATO-led forces' convoy in the Afghan capital of Kabul on Monday, sources said.
Exactly 13 years on from the U.S.- led military coalition' invasion on the Taliban regime in Afghanistan, the Afghans are still suffering at the hands of Taliban militants and will likely suffer in the years ahead, Afghans from all walks of life including public opinion leaders believe.
India will go to polls on April 7 this year, the country's independent Election Commission announced Wednesday.
Exactly 12 years ago on Oct. 7, 2001, the U.S.-led military coalition forces invaded Afghanistan to topple the Taliban regime that harbored Osama Bin Laden, the alleged mastermind of the deadly 9/11 attacks on New York and Washington.
After the month-long political deadlock, Nepal's opposition parties sat for talks with High Level Political Committee (HLPC), a four-party mechanism that backs the Interim Election Government.
A suicide car bomb went off near a NATO base in Naw Zad district in southern Afghan province of Helmand on Thursday evening, causing casualties.