German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Thursday reiterated the importance of implementing the Minsk deal in solving the Ukraine conflict, and expressed willingness to address international challenges by working together with Russia.
U.S. President Barack Obama on Thursday signed into law a bill aiming for tougher sanctions on Russia, but ruled out additional steps at the moment.
Pakistan will prepare a national anti-terror plan in a week, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said on Wednesday a day after a group of Taliban militants attacked an army school and killed 141 people including 132 children.
Australia's national security intelligence service said on Thursday that the number of new arrivals of Australian jihadists in the Middle East was roughly keeping pace with the fatalities.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry appealed to lawmakers on Tuesday not to rule out the use of American ground force in a new war authorization against the Islamic State (IS).
Syria's Information Minister Omran al-Zoubi on Thursday slammed the U.S. State Department statement that condemned the Syrian airstrikes against the northern province of al-Raqqa, saying the statement contains fabricated accusations, according to the official SANA news agency.
Thailand's National Legislative Assembly (NLA) on Tuesday decided to postpone a meeting to deliberate an impeachment motion against former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra from Wednesday to Nov. 28.
Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pledged Tuesday to take "iron hand" against a wave of Arab violent protests and blamed the Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas for stoking the tensions.
Thailand's National Legislative Assembly (NLA), the interim legislature, on Thursday decided to accept an impeachment bid against two former legislators.
Former Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra is likely to survive a retroactive impeachment complaint filed against her in the National Legislative Assembly ( NLA) primarily because of the reconciliation efforts initiated by Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-Ocha and the ruling military junta, analysts here said.
Canada's CF-18 hornet fighters conducted their first combat strike Monday since joining the fight against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) on Oct. 30, Canadian Minister of National Defense Rob Nicholson said Monday.
Bangladesh Jamaat enforces nationwide strike over chief's death penalty
China will set up an anti-terrorism intelligence gathering center to coordinate and streamline intelligence gathering in the field, according to a draft law submitted for reading on Monday.
Vietnam has carried out nearly 8,000 administrative inspections and 190,000 specialized ones in the fight against corruption since the beginning of 2014, said Huynh Phong Tranh, Vietnam's inspector general.
An al-Qaida suicide bombing struck a Shiite Houthi protest rally in the Yemeni capital Sanaa on Thursday, killing at least 47 people, the Health Ministry said, hours after the new prime minister quit the post amid threats of mass protests.
The Islamic State (IS) militant group staged an explosion in the predominantly Kurdish city of Kobane on the Syrian-Turkish borders on Wednesday, causing unknown losses or casualties, according to the oppositional Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta is expected to leave the country next week to attend his trial at The Hague with more than 150 Members of Parliament who will be expressing their support for their leader.
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