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The United Nations Security Council Committee on Al-Qaeda sanctions has blacklisted the Boko Haram sect after the insurgents kidnapped hundreds of schoolgirls. Consequently, the sect is now subject to an international asset freeze, travel ban and arms embargo. U.S Ambassador to...

The U.N. Security Council approved sanctions Thursday against Nigeria's Boko Haram. It added the terrorist group to the United Nation's 1267 sanctions list, a list of al Qaeda-linked organizations subject to arms embargoes, travel bans and asset freezes. "Today, the Security...

Five suicide bombers carried out the attack which killed 31 people in the capital of China's troubled Xinjiang region, state media reported a day after the deadliest terrorist attack to date in the region. The incident, which occurred in Urumqi...

When a barrage of drone-fired missiles hit al Qaeda cells in Yemen in mid-April and killed dozens of militants, the results were strikingly different from a mistaken U.S. attack on a Yemeni wedding convoy just four months earlier. But even...

Thai army chief Prayuth Chan-ocha summoned ousted Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra to a meeting on Friday, a day after he seized power in a bloodless coup and said he wanted to restore order following months of turmoil. General Prayuth launched...

Thailand’s army chief took control of the country and suspended the constitution after a six-month crisis that has sapped economic growth and caused political paralysis, staging the military’s 12th coup since 1932. Two days after declaring martial law and saying...

A blast in the capital of China's western region of Xinjiang killed 31 people, with around 90 others injured, state broadcaster China Central Television reported on Thursday. The blast took place when two vehicles rammed into a crowd at a...

Vietnam has promised to provide financial help to businesses hit by anti-China riots which erupted last week over a territorial dispute between Hanoi and Beijing in the South China Sea. The measures include tax relief, rent waivers and early lines...

Thailand's military chief will press political rivals on Thursday to end a drawn-out power struggle that has polarized the country and battered its economy, after neither side gave ground in a first round of army-brokered talks. Army chief General Prayuth...

Russia said on Wednesday that troops deployed for exercises near the Ukrainian border had dismantled equipment and were moving to train stations and airfields for return to their permanent bases, but the United States and NATO said they saw...