Colombia's center-right government and the Marxist FARC rebel group signed a peace deal on Monday to end a half-century war that killed a quarter of a million people and once took the Andean country to the brink of collapse.
A social survey is to be conducted jointly by the Sri Lankan government and UN agencies to assess the requirements with regard to accelerated resettlement of the war displaced in the north of the country, the government said on Wednesday.
A Chinese university has announced an ambitious plan to build the largest database in Asia on the Japanese war criminal trials that followed World War II.
Bangladesh hanged a wealthy tycoon and top financial backer of its largest Islamist party late on Saturday (Sept 3) for war crimes, dealing a massive blow to the group’s ambitions in the Muslim-majority nation.
Sri Lanka's in-house expertise on defeating terrorists can be of immense benefit for the rest of the world especially in the face of terrorist threats, Sri Lanka's Defence Secretary Karunasena Hettiarachchi said here on Thursday.
Bangladesh's Supreme Court rejected a final appeal by a key Islamist party financier against his death sentence for atrocities committed during the 1971 war of independence, lawyers said on Tuesday.
Bangladesh's highest court on Tuesday rejected appeal from an influential leader of Bangladesh's largest Islamist party who was sentenced to death in 2014 for war crimes including mass killings.
Bangladesh's apex court on Aug. 30 will deliver its final verdict on the review petition filed by an influential leader of the country's largest Islamist party, who was sentenced to death in 2014 for war crimes including mass killings.
The Sri Lankan government on Wednesday announced that it will have a national policy to deal with war affected families.
August 15 marked the 71st anniversary of Japan's unconditional surrender during World War II. However, on this special day when Japan should spend time reflecting on its history of militaristic aggression, its Prime Minister Shinzo Abe sent a ritual offering to the notorious Yasukuni Shrine.
China on Monday voiced "firm" opposition after two Japanese cabinet members paid homage to the notorious war-linked Yasukuni Shrine on the 71st anniversary of Japan's unconditional surrender in World War II.
Regardless of the feelings of the peoples of neighboring countries, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Monday sent a ritual offering to the notorious war-linked Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo on the 71st anniversary of Japan's unconditional surrender in World War II.
"The Abe government's warped historical view won't have any future. Only by reflecting upon history, can Japan achieve true reconciliation with its Asian neighbors," said Takakage Fujita.
New reconstruction minister of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's cabinet visited the war-linked notorious Yasukuni Shrine here on Thursday.
Nagasaki, a southwest Japanese city, marked the 71st anniversary of atomic bombing on Tuesday, amid calls from ordinary japanese people for reflecting on the country's aggression history.
A South Korean man was sentenced to four years in prison Tuesday for detonating a homemade pipe bomb at a controversial Tokyo war shrine.
In the year 2016, the agility of the European Union (EU) in negotiating economic, political and social challenges is being tested.
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